Apple song now has 1/2 as many paid subscribers as Spotify

in step with a document by means of the financial instances, Apple track has a reached 10 million paid subscribers since the carrier's launch six months in the past.

even though the Cupertino agency has declined to touch upon the report, the parent seems greater than affordable – Apple CEO Tim cook discovered that the carrier had reached 6.five million paid subscribers again in October, and Apple song has seeing that emerge as available on Android devices.

This milestone is particularly encouraging for the provider, because it took streaming rival Spotify almost six years to reach that quantity. Spotify currently has 20 million paid subscribers, and a similarly seventy five million users that pay attention to the free model of the service.

music enterprise analyst Mark Mulligan told the feet that Apple music has "the capacity to be the leading music subscription service someday in 2017".