YouTube Music launches in SE Asia

7 Asian countries including Philippines and Thailand

13/11/2019
SOURCE: Google Maps - South East Asia
SOURCE: Google Maps – South East Asia

YouTube Music launches in SE Asia with 7 additional countries as part of its worldwide rollout to replace Google Play Music. Google has been under criticism that YouTube Music is less feature rich and less available than Google Play Music and this has seen a flurry of additional countries and features deployed on the YouTube Music platform. Welcome as these additions are many of them are catch up rather than novel features and with the relatively poor audio quality on offer the streamer has a long way to go to match the innovation of Spotify or the audio quality of Amazon Music.

The list of countries which were part of this rollout are:

Hong Kong

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

Taiwan

Thailand

YouTube recently has rolled out its service into Latin America, Eastern Europe, India and the Middle East this year as part of its plans to replace Google Play Music with YouTube Music. For those interested in the full list of countries where YouTube Music and YouTube Premium is available you can go here.

Recent articles of interest

YouTube Music app comes preinstalled on Android 10
  Paid for views will no longer count in YouTube Music Charts
  YouTube Music comes to Waze
  YouTube Music lets users switch between audio and music videos

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