Available in Italy YouTube Music and YouTube Premium: the latter will in fact replace YouTube Red, while the former is a new streaming music service that currently supports Google Play Music. Here are the prices and links to download the applications Youtube Premium Apk, available on both iOS and Android.
YouTube Music and YouTube Premium finally arrive in Italy, a few weeks after the announcement made by Google, well before the end of the year hypothesized by some previous rumors. The two new services take the place, splitting the offer, of the previous YouTube Red into two new offers.
Youtube Music
YouTube Music is the most direct competitor to streaming music services, such as Apple Music and Spotify. This is a service that is currently detached from Google Play Music, which for many could even be a duplicate.
It consists of a new mobile app, available for iOS and Android, but also a new desktop player, reachable at music.youtube.com. With YouTube Music, Google argues, it’s easier to have access to all official versions of songs, with thousands of playlists available, plus remixes, covers, live versions, and of course music videos, materials not available on competitors like Spotify.
Google’s machine learning will also be integrated into this new platform, with the promise that the app will be able to find songs by lyrics or just with a general description such as “that song with the whistle”, featured feature on YouTube Music.
YouTube Music offers a free first plan, but unfortunately, on iOS and Android, it is almost useless, as music playback is stopped when exiting the app. In addition to having to listen to the advertisements, you will also have to keep the application active in the foreground, with the screen on, to enjoy the musical contents.
The subscription, on the other hand, after a first free period of 90 days, will cost 9.99 euros per month. Anyone who already has a Google Play Music membership will get YouTube Music as part of that membership. Play Music at the moment continues to exist even if it is difficult to think of a full operation of the two services in the future: probably the first will give way to the latter.
The application currently offers a completely dark theme, therefore very different from Play Music, which is instead sunnier, with a completely clear theme. YouTube Music can be downloaded for free from here for iPhone and iPad, while the Android version is available at this address.
YouTube Premium
YouTube Premium instead, for 11.99 euros, includes the YouTube Music offer, as well as allowing access to the YouTube Originals video content collection, and eliminating advertisements on YouTube. Featuring the Originals series featuring “original series and films” including comedies, dramas, documentaries, and action and adventure shows from the UK, Germany, France, Mexico, and other countries. No ads and the ability to play videos in the background or download them for offline playback.
