🆚 Spotify vs. YouTube Music

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Audio streaming service
Audio streaming service

About

Spotify is a digital music-streaming service that gives users access to a large online library of music tracks and podcasts.

It offers over 100 million songs and around 7 million podcast titles, supports cross-platform playback across mobile, desktop, and smart devices, allows offline downloads of up to 10,000 tracks on each of up to 5 devices for Premium users, and provides AI-powered personalized recommendations.

YouTube Music is a music streaming service from Google that provides on-demand listening, playlists, and personalized recommendations.

It offers a catalog of over 100 million tracks, supports background play and offline downloads, provides mood- and activity-based mixes, and includes music videos from YouTube.

Headquarters

Stockholm, Sweden
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Ads between tracks, no offline listening
Premium
Student$5.99/month
Individual$11.99/month
Duo$16.99/month
Family$19.99/month
Free version ✔️Ads, no offline downloads, no background play
Student$5.49/month
Individual$10.99/month
Family
(5 members)
$16.99/month

Categories

Audio Streaming › Rank #1
Audio Streaming › Rank #16

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Spotify audio streaming service is 94 times more popular than YouTube Music.
Total websites

Market share

Audio Streaming

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Spotify is more popular than YouTube Music in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Brazil
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Poland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Spotify is more popular than YouTube Music in all market segments.
Entertainment
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
General News
Sports
Internet Services
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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