YouTube Music announced, a potential Spotify-killer

November 12, 2015

We have another reason to love YouTube. The most popular video sharing website just introduced YouTube Music. Yup, it’s a new mobile app that plays your favorite songs from some of your favorite artists of all time. For more than a decade now, YouTube has been entertaining billions of people all over the world. Ask anyone you know and he’d admit that he probably spent a few hours or so watching videos (even senseless ones) on YouTube.

YouTube has been instrumental to discovery of new artists. It has helped in increasing the popularity of unknown musicians, vloggers, cats (dogs too!), and cute kids. It has even helped a lot of netizens earn up to millions of dollars. However for some, it’s unfortunate that their videos go viral for the wrong reasons. No doubt that YouTube has changed the entertainment, news, tech, gaming, communication, and especially music. How easy it is to just type a keyword and you’ll be given an endless list of songs and artists to watch and listen to. Even playlists are prepared by random people for you to follow.

We can go on and on listing how many people and organizations YouTube helped over the years. It’s one great martketing and advertising tool to promote just about anyone or any cause. Artists and musicians especially greatly benefitted from this website but there are still a lot of things to be improved. While “listening” to songs on YouTube is possible, you can’t get out of the mobile app and continue to enjoy a song while doing other tasks. There may be some hack around it but YouTube Music will make it easier for everyone.

YouTube Music provide s a new listening experience and discovery of new songs. With this app, you can access the wide range of songs on YouTube’s music catalog. You will never run out of choices because there are too many videos, tracks, songs, and albums uploaded already. There are even concert videos, lyric videos, covers, and remixes to enjoy.

If you have YouTube Red, you can enjoy YouTube Music sans the ads for an uninterrupted listening experience. Offline listening is also possible as you can save videos. YouTube will continue playing the song even when you get out of the app (finally!).

Enjoy a 14-day free trial of YouTube Red when you first sign in to the new YouTube Music app. After two weeks and if you don’t subscribe to YouTube Red, ads will once again ~~harass you~~ come.