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

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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