In a remarkably rapid growth surge, YouTube’s Music and Premium services now have more than 80 million paying subscribers combined, a rep informs Variety — up a whopping 30 million from the 50 million the company announced in September of last year.It’s a dramatic leap, especially for a platform where so much can be had for free, and would seem to place YouTube — which is already the No. 1 overall streaming platform for music worldwide — as the world’s third or fourth-largest paid music-streaming service, behind Spotify, Apple Music and China-only Tencent, although such rankings are always piled with asterisks (such as whether or not free trials are included in the tally; YouTube includes them, which not all services do).
Origen: YouTube Music and Premium Hit 80 Million-Plus Paying Subscribers – Variety
