Congratulations! This Year YouTube Music And Premium Print 30 Million New Customers

JAKARTA - This year is the best year for reported YouTube to continue to grow. For the closings in the fourth quarter of 2022, YouTube Music and YouTube Premium added 30 million subscribers globally.

After previously in September printing 50 million subscribers. So if it's totaled, now both services have 80 million subscribers. This increase is likely when users are looking to gain access to facilities that come with one of the services.

Obviously, the upgrade shows YouTube Music and YouTube Premium growing faster this year than last year.

In last year's report, YouTube only added 20 million subscribers to both of its services in one year. Google did not specify the number in both reports, so it's not clear what features users have and how many customers each individual service has.

While it's amazing for YouTube, it's still behind giants like Apple Music and Spotify on music platforms.

The latest estimate from research firm Midia shows that Apple has 78.6 million subscribers, with China's exclusive Amazon Music and Tencent Music lagging behind around 68.1 million. Meanwhile, Spotify said it had reached 188 million paid subscribers last July.

Launching The Verge, Thursday, November 10, the YouTube Premium subscription price is 11.99 US dollars equivalent to Rp186 thousand per month, providing a number of benefits, including ad-free videos, background playback, and offline downloads.

YouTube Premium also offers package access to YouTube Music and YouTube Kids. The USD 9.99 YouTube Music subscription is equivalent to IDR 156 thousand per month, it only gives users access to music libraries for streaming and offline.