“The WWDC keynote is finally behind us and Apple Music is officially the latest entrant into the competitive streaming music market,” Yoni Heisler writes for BGR. “While Apple spent a good deal of time during the keynote] detailing the myriad of features that differentiate its own music service from the rest of the pack, there’s one significant metric that Apple didn’t even have time to mention — the size of its music library.”
“Apple’s iTunes Music library is the best in the business, with 20% more tracks [37 million] than both Spotify [30 million] and Google Play [30 million] and nearly 50% more tracks than Tidal [25 million],” Heisler writes. “Pandora, surprisingly, only has a library of about 1.5 million songs.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The sheer numbers — library breadth, user base (not to mention quality of user base, i.e. ability and willingness to pay for services), marketing might, country availability — are all overwhelmingly in Apple Music’s favor.
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