

The service superseded Google Play Music as Google's main brand for music streaming on December 1, 2020. These subscription benefits are also offered to subscribers of YouTube Premium. The service also offers a premium tier, which enables ad-free playback, audio-only background playback, and downloading songs for offline playback. Support for podcasts was introduced in April 2023. It provides a tailored interface for the service, oriented towards music streaming, allowing users to browse through songs and music videos on YouTube based on genres, playlists, and recommendations. YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Google.

80 million paid subscribers (as of September 11, 2022 ) ġ01 countries mostly in the Americas, Europe and Oceania, and in parts of Africa and Asia (see full list)
