Spotify, Amazon, Apple or YouTube? The Streaming Music Showdown

Countless streaming apps are vying for your money, each offering millions of songs. Here’s how to pick the best one.

You get tens of millions of songs for a few bucks a month no matter which you pick, but not all music services are the same. WSJ's David Pierce explains which is the right choice for different types of music listeners. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal
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Streaming is the future of music. Frankly, it’s the present: Services like Spotify and Apple Music already account for nearly two-thirds of the music industry’s revenue. Rather than buying one song or an album at a time, most people choose to pay about $10 a month for unlimited access to tens of millions of tracks.

So much for the cassette comeback.

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