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Spotify is rivaled by Apple Music which was launched in the end of June and is now on a three month free trial. Its app climbed to the ninth-most-popular spot in the USA iTunes store and stayed there for five consecutive days – according to Bloomberg, that’s something it hadn’t managed for a single day since December 2013, let alone five full days. Apple is going all hard out against Spotify trying to completely kill of Spotify with its recently released Apple Music service; however Spotify is not backing out of the fight.

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Both Rdio and Spotify offer the same prices for their family plans. This number can match the reach of Apple Music in the industry as well. Let’s dive in.

The music selection is eclectic but certainly skewed toward younger audiences. What are you thoughts about Apple Music?

ITunes Radio is also still free. There are ads on these stations. Select “View Apple ID”, pop in your password and scroll down to “Subscriptions”.

There’s a streaming library of music, like Spotify. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) will also reportedly pay royalties to rights holders and introduce a service for registering their content to halt piracy.

There are exclusives like Taylor Swift or AC/DC. But as you can tell from the tip I included above, it’s actually quite easy to save music in Apple Music.

You’re shown a dozen or so genres and are asked to pick what you like, what you really like and what you want to never hear. With album sales sinking and streaming services growing, artists today rely on touring in order to make their money. It was apparently replaced by a new streaming service dubbed as the Apple Music.

Facebook believes its Suggested Videos initiative will enable it to cut into YouTube’s dominance of ad-revenue as it is more able to present videos to its users within their News Feeds rather than the viewer having to seek out the content.

You can find your newly added songs and albums by going to My Music then Library. “Apple Music brings the best features together for an experience every music lover will appreciate”.

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To listen to music from the Google Music store, you do not need to have a working internet connection at the time.

Is Facebook about to launch an Apple Music and Spotify rival