{"id":110690,"date":"2018-06-20T19:58:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/?p=337461"},"modified":"2018-06-20T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T19:58:31","slug":"youtube-music-and-youtube-premium-officially-launches-in-17-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=110690","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Music and YouTube Premium officially launches in 17 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<img src=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Android_All_English-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"YouTube Music and YouTube Premium officially launches in 17 countries\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dancingastro.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Android_All_English-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/dancingastro.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Android_All_English-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/dancingastro.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Android_All_English-400x400.png 400w, http:\/\/dancingastro.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Android_All_English-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" title=\"YouTube Music and YouTube Premium officially launches in 17 countries\" \/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/youtube\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> Music and YouTube Premium have officially launched in 17 countries including the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Just like other music streaming services, YouTube Music comes with free and premium tiers, as well as a reimagined mobile app and new desktop interface. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/spotify\"  rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, YouTube Music\u2019s interface is driven by algorithms to best serve the app\u2019s music discovery focus. The app will continually feed its users new recommendations based on their listening history, location, and activity. The free version of the app is ad-supported, while an ad-free YouTube Music Premium is $9.99 a month and allows for background listening (for audio tracks only) and downloads.<\/p>\n<p>The service&#8217;s premium tier is priced just slightly higher at $11.99 per month, though it also includes background listening for videos and an ad-free experience across all content on YouTube. The app also includes access to YouTube Originals, which the company has the hopes to expand with \u201cbigger original series and movies\u201d across a wide variety of genres in the future.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube is currently offering a limited promotion where users can try out the newly launched service for free for their first three months.<\/p>\n<p><em>H\/T:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/6\/18\/17475122\/youtube-music-premium-launch-us-canada-uk\"  rel=\"noopener\"> The Verge\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DancingAstronaut\/~4\/ciaPaobB82Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Android_All_English-150x150.png\" alt=\"YouTube Music and YouTube Premium officially launches in 17 countries\" title=\"YouTube Music and YouTube Premium officially launches in 17 countries\">Users can currently try out YouTube Music for free for their first three months. How does the new service measure up against other DSP giants?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110691,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110690\/revisions\/110691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}