Online music locker and streaming service, 2011–2020
"Google Music" redirects here. For the former Chinese product, see List of Google products § Yinyue.
Google Play Music
Developer
Google
Type
Music and video streaming
Launch date
November 16, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-11-16)
Discontinued
December 3, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-12-03)
Platform(s)
Android, Android TV, iOS, web browser, Wear OS, Pixel Watch
Status
Discontinued
Website
play.google.com/music
Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service and an online music locker operated by Google as part of its Google Play line of services. The service was announced on May 10, 2011; after a six-month, invitation-only beta period, it was publicly launched on November 16, 2011, and shut down in December 2020.
Users with standard accounts could store up to 50,000 songs from their personal libraries at no cost. A paid Google Play Music subscription allowed users to on-demand stream any song in the Google Play Music catalog and in YouTube Music Premium catalog and in several territories in YouTube Premium catalog. Also, users could purchase additional tracks from the music store section of Google Play. Google Play Music mobile apps also supported offline playback of tracks stored on the device.
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