As of Monday, the Apple Music for Android app has been downloaded over 10 million times. The app achieved that number in less than 10 months. (It was released in November 2015.)
Apple released the Apple Music app in the Google Play store in November 2015, four month after the streaming music service debuted on iOS devices. The app was released for Android as a “beta,” and officially left that status behind in August of this year. The app boasts a design and feature set comparable to the iOS version, and also offers new users the same free three-month trial period. Pricing is the same for the service across all platforms.
Apple recently began making Apple Music 3-month and 12-month gift cards available for purchase in stores and online. The $99 card offers 12-months of Apple Music for $8.25 per month, and 18% savings over the usual $9.99 monthly tariff. The gift cards are currently available in the U.S. via Apple Stores and select third-party retailers such as BestBuy. eGift cards are available via PayPal and Walmart, if you’re into the “instant gratification without leaving my couch” thing.
The streaming music service had 15 million paying subscribers as of June 2016. As a comparison, leading music streamer Spotify had 30 million paying listeners around that same time.
iOS 10, expected to be released sometime later this month, offers a revamped Apple Music app, which boasts a new, bolder design, as well as improved browsing and discovery tools.
If you’re an Android device user, you can grab the Apple Music for Android app for free from Google Play, it works on devices running Android 4.3 or later.
