According to the proven scheme: users will have to pay for free listening to Apple iTunes Radio

    Apple iTunes Radio will be paid on January 28. The company informed users about this by e-mail. After January 28th, only users who subscribe to Apple Music will be able to access iTunes Radio . The subscription price for this streaming service in the USA is $ 9.99 per month. An individual subscription in Russia costs 169 rubles, and a family subscription costs 269 rubles. But Apple still has one more free radio - Beats 1. This is a 24-hour music radio station with DJs and exclusive premieres.



    Since 2013, iTunes Radio has been offering free access to two hundred radio stations and a catalog of iTunes music tracks. The lack of subscription was compensated by the presence of built-in advertising in the service. iTunes Radio allows owners of iPhone, iPad and Mac to listen to radio stations broadcasting music of various genres, add new stations and so on. The user can purchase a playable song in the iTunes Store by pressing a special button.

    After the merger of iTunes Radio with Apple Music, Pandora's online radio will have one less competitor. But the competition with Pandora probably ceased to have any meaning for Apple. The priority goal of the corporation in the streaming market is to expand the audience of Apple Music, reports Buzzfeed.

    In May 2014, Apple acquired Beats Electronics along with Beats Music for $ 3 billion. In November, the corporation announced the closure of the service. The company proposed to users of the service to transfer their accounts to Apple Music. On November 30, 2015, Beats Music service ceased to work.

    On January 11, Megamind wrote that by the beginning of 2016, in just six months of its existence, the service had assembled an army of 10 million subscribers. We service Spotify - rival Apple Music - in June 2015 was about 20 million paid accounts. The total number of users of the Swedish service is 75 million people.

    Spotify was launched back in 2008, and it was possible to overcome the mark of 15 million users only after two years. Another indicator in favor of Apple is the ratio of paid subscribers to the general audience. Spotify has about 55 million customers who have not signed up for a paid subscription.

    Do not forget, of course, that the high popularity of Apple products and the vast ecosystem have a positive effect on the growth of Apple Music's audience.

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