YouTube Music Archives

YouTube Music introduces Spring Recap 2022

18/06/2022

YouTube Music introduces Spring Recap 2022, an exploration of your top artists, songs, albums and playlists over the last season. Last December, YouTube Music introduced the 2021 Recap, a new experience that provided users with personalized listening stats spanning the entire year. After receiving positive feedback the streamer has launched Spring Recap, an exploration of your top artists, songs, albums and playlists over the last season. Similar to the 2021 Recap, there is personalized content in […]

YouTube publishes its plans for 2022

21/02/2022

YouTube publishes its plans for 2022 which are centred around ‘Community, Collaboration and Commerce’. In a recent blog posting, YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan offers an inside look at this year’s new products, tools, and features for its creators, viewers, and partners. As can be imagined this focusses mainly on YouTube and how creators and partners can promote their work and monetize their efforts. As far as YouTube Music is concerned there are no […]

YouTube Music releases 2021 Recap

10/12/2021

YouTube Music releases 2021 Recap a first-time experience that will bring you fun, shareable stats, and a personalized playlist to help you relive all your favourite music from the past year. Music fans can tap into their 2021 Recap landing page on the YouTube Music app and scroll through to see their personalized stats (top artists, songs, music videos, and playlists) from this year. There are also top playlists made by YouTube Music listeners, The 2021 Recap also highlights your […]

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YouTube Music Review

02/12/2021

History The original version of YouTube Music was launched in November 2015 together with a premium subscription, YouTube Red, which covered all of the YouTube platform including the Music app. In June 2018, Google (the owners of YouTube) relaunched the service as YouTube Premium which contained YouTube and YouTube Music and a standalone subscription to YouTube Music. YouTube Premium is £11.99/month and £17.99 for a family subscription (up to 6 family members) and YouTube Music […]

Background listening comes to YouTube Music

04/10/2021

Background listening comes to YouTube Music which will allow people to continue listening to YouTube Music while using other apps or when your screen is off. Within this, you can engage with the YouTube Music app through an ad-supported, radio-like experience featuring the artists, songs, and albums you love, plus personalized mixes on shuffle – all without the hassle of having to keep the YouTube Music app open on your device. This feature will begin rolling […]

Download YouTube Music to Samsung smartwatches

17/08/2021

Download YouTube Music to Samsung smartwatches with their latest update running the unified version of Wear OS on devices such as the new Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic. YouTube Music Premium subscribers will enjoy access to more than 80 million songs and thousands of playlists on the new YouTube Music app on Wear OS. This standalone app is the first smartwatch app from YouTube Music that allows YouTube Music Premium subscribers to download music […]

Streamers celebrate Pride Month 2021

03/06/2021

Streamers celebrate Pride Month 2021 with dedicated channels devoted to LGBTQIA+ artists and creators from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify and YouTube Music. Events of all kinds will be held during June in many countries including the UK and US to remember and celebrate when the Stonewall Riots took place back in 1969. This is a round up of the offerings from the mainstream streaming services. Amazon Music launches Pride History On the 29th […]