“Put it down to the service’s 90-day ‘pay nothing’ trial, or its selection of over 30 Million songs and human-curated playlists being available via a simple request to Siri … but one thing appears certain,” Arron Hirst reports for RazorianFly. “Apple Music is managing to convert Spotify listeners.”
“The service which launched at the end of last month, along with Apple’s new radio effort – Beats 1 – is continuing to draw in listeners from a whole host of music streaming platforms, including Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, Play Music, Beats Music and TIDAL,” Hirst reports. “The data arrives courtesy of a revealing poll held by the folks over at 9to5Mac.”
Hirst reports, “According to the ongoing results of the poll, Apple Music reflects the first streaming music service tried for 19.15% of respondents (2,457 votes), while 33.7% of respondents said they were using Apple Music and had switched wholeheartedly from Spotify (4,323 votes)…”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wait, you mean music lovers want a significantly larger library, vastly superior curation, a revolutionary worldwide radio station, custom Internet radio stations and more? Oh ok. 😉
SEE ALSO:
Oh ok, Spotify: Apple’s iOS 8.4 adoption already at 37 percent – July 7, 2015
Apple Music could kill more than just Spotify, it could kill music labels, too – June 25, 2015
Spotify founder: Oh ok, we don’t need to be number one in music streaming – June 11, 2015
Why Apple Music will gut and publicly execute Spotify – June 10, 2015
Spotify CEO claims to be ‘ok’ with Apple Music – June 9, 2015
Jimmy Iovine and Eddy Cue: Apple Music gunning for Spotify, YouTube, and terrestrial radio – June 9, 2015
Something about Apple Music betraying Apple’s brilliance by ignoring ‘The Harry Potter Theory of Marketing’ or some such nonsense – June 9, 2015
Bob Lefsetz on Apple Music: What team is Jimmy Iovine on? – June 9, 2015
Apple Music’s huge advantage over Spotify – June 9, 2015
Apple Music is a major mess and it won’t beat Spotify or something – June 9, 2015
When Apple Music arrives, what happens to iTunes Match? – June 9, 2015
What Apple Music says about how Apple views musicians – June 8, 2015
Apple’s revolutionary Apple Music just might prove its skeptics wrong – June 8, 2015
Apple unveils revolutionary Apple Music service – June 8, 2015