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# Google Play Music Adds Free Streaming Tier
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/google-play-music-adds-free-streaming-tier/
- Published: 2015-06-23T13:58:14.000Z
- Updated: 2015-06-23T13:58:14.000Z
- Description: Ladies and gentleman, despite Apple's best efforts to kill it, freemium music is not dead. Google today added a free streaming tier to its subscription Google Play Music offering.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Apps, Mobile & SMS, Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, Android (operating system), App Store (iOS), Apple Inc., Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Google, Google Play, IOS, Pandora Radio, Spotify, Streaming media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:28

[![image from www.go-patriots.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d12cb5ab970c-150wi "image from www.go-patriots.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d12cb5ab970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Ladies and gentleman, **despite Apple's best efforts to kill it**, **freemium music is not dead**. Google today added a **free streaming tier** to its subscription **Google Play Music** offering.

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Google Play Music has added a free ad supported Pandora-like tier to its subscription music service. Powered by Songza, which Google bought last year, users can select a playlist by mood, activity, genre or artist, but beyond a thumbs up or down and skipping have little control over exactly what is played.

The new free, ad-supported version of Google Play Music is launching first in the U.S. It’s available on the [web](http://music.google.com/?ref=hypebot.com) today, and is rolling out this week to [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music&hl=en&ref=hypebot.com) and [iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-play-music/id691797987?mt=8&ref=hypebot.com).

Google's move comes at a time when the best way to attract new users to streaming music is being hotly debated, and just a week before Apple launches its first streaming service , as well as, a live radio-like broadcast dubbed Beast1.

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