Apple Music Exceeds 60M Subscribers

 Apple Music has now reached over 60 million total subscribers worldwide. That figure includes paid and trial users.

Eddy Cue, Apple’s VP of services, confirmed these numbers in an interview with the French news site Numerama on Thursday (June 27). This is a big increase since the last update on Apple Music’s subscriber count in December, which was 56 million, according Financial Times.

In the beginning of June 2019, Apple announced that it will retire iTunes. During a previous interview with Eddy Cue, the VP guaranteed that all users’ purchases and other iTunes playlists will be transferred to the newly improved Apple Music app.

In the meantime, the streaming race is getting heated. As of April 2019, Spotify surpassed 100 million subscribers, making it the first streaming service to reach such a milestone. As of May, according to Bloomberg, Amazon‘s paid subscriber count is estimated to be around 30 million, while Google is estimated to have 15 million between both YouTube Music and Google Play.