14 DAY TRIAL // Apple Music has easily become the competitor Spotify never wanted, and probably the worst news for all rivals is that Apple’s service just keeps growing and growing.
This week, Apple Music reached a new milestone. The parent company announced that over 100 million songs are now available for subscribers.
Apple Music is available in 167 countries, and according to Apple itself, over 20,000 content creators are providing users with fresh music every day.
“Twenty-one years on from the invention of iTunes and the debut of the original iPod, we’ve gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music. It’s phenomenal growth by any metric. The entire history, present, and future of music is at your fingertips or voice command,” Apple Music’s global head of editorial Rachel Newman says.
“More music than you can listen to in a lifetime, or several lifetimes. More music than any other platform. Simply the biggest collection of music, in any format, ever. One hundred million songs — it’s a number that will continue to grow and exponentially multiply. But it’s more than just a number, representing something much more significant — the tectonic shift in the business of music making and distribution over these past two decades.”
Spotify and its very own statistics
Spotify, which is often described the number one rival to Apple Music, currently has 80 million tracks, according to statistics provided by the company itself.
More than 4 million of them are podcasts, and Spotify claims this makes it the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
Spotify has more than 433 million users in 183 markets, while the number of subscribers has reached 183 million.
For the sake of comparison, Spotify launched back in 2008, while Apple Music is a much newer service, having debuted in June 2015.