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# Beats Music Opens API To Public
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/beats-music-opens-api-to-public/
- Published: 2014-03-07T09:17:19.000Z
- Updated: 2014-03-07T09:17:19.000Z
- Description: Beats Music today opened it's API to developers. The service remains $10 a month for consumers, but their hope is that outside developers will extend Beats' reach for those willing to pay. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/03/beats-music-opens-api-to-public.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:38

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Beats Music today opened it's API to developers. The service remains $10 a month for consumers, but their hope is that outside developers will extend Beats' reach for those willing to pay to a multitude of devices and services. Today's announcement comes just one day after Spotify paid $100 million for music data provider The Echo Nest saying it would use its own newly acquired API to extend it's (often free) music service to more developers.

[![Beats](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201a5117e8a0a970c-150wi "Beats")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201a5117e8a0a970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

"If you're willing to pay $100 a year for music, which in my experience for all the world's music is a tremendous bargain, you should have access to music anywhere you might want it, in your car, house, anywhere," CEO Ian Rogers told [CNET](http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023%5F3-57620039-93/beats-music-opens-up-making-its-api-public/?ref=hypebot.com) of today's Beats announcement. "This isn't just about giving access to the catalog of music. This is about people who are subscribers to a premium music service that has premium music features, as a subscriber you should have access anywhere."

Sonos and Bop.fm are already using Beats API. Some of the features of the API include the ability to:

- Search the Beats Music Catalog
- Play a Track
- Create, Update, and Display a Playlist