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Amazon Music Spotify Deezer Player

Tags: amazon anghami Apple Music Deezer Gaana JioSaavn Market data Pandora SoundCloud Spotify streaming Tencent YouTube Sometimes the statistics around how many people are streaming music – and how many are paying for it – can lead to confusion and misinterpretation. Spotify and Deezer didn’t arrive on the market in one day. But now, no matter what you think, streaming has become a way to consume music. Offers are constantly multiplying and trying to differentiate themselves. Here is our comparative guide to help you find your way around. Update of comparisons with the arrival of Amazon Music on. Deezer: Audio quality The biggest thing that sets Deezer and Spotify apart is audio quality. Deezer has a HiFi setting, which plays lossless FLAC files at 16-bit/44.1kHz, so long as you pay for Deezer HiFi. Deezer Free’s audio quality tops out at 128kbps via MP3 files, and Deezer Premium’s is 320kbps.

(Pocket-lint) - Once your children get to a particular age, you'll find that having everyone using the same music account becomes difficult. Not only does it mess with your automatically-generated playlists, but more importantly it means you can't listen because someone else is using that subscription.

In comes the family plan, aiming to give multiple users access to streaming services without you having to pay the full price for multiple individual subscriptions.

Here we break down the costs, pros and cons of each different system and you'll find they're all competitively priced.

Spotify

Family price: $14.99 / £14.99
Family members: 6
Explicit lyric filtering: Yes

Spotify is the big daddy of streaming services, 60 million+ tracks, 1.5 million podcasts and Spotify Radio, but importantly there's a lot of support for Spotify on other devices through the Premium service - on smart TVs, speakers, Android, Apple, PC, Mac - with Spotify Connect a major advantage.

The family price is £14.99/$14.99 and for that up to six members get the same Premium level of service. If you're already a Spotify subscriber and you join a family, you can keep your playlists.

You all have to live at the same address - but there's no limit on the number of devices - and there will be one individual bill. You will all have to have individual Spotify accounts linked to an email address - and you (legally) need to be 13 (with parental consent) to have a Spotify account.

There's ad-supported Spotify Free as an alternative, but it does have limitations - and if you're part of a Spotify Family you can't use any other discounts or use free subscriptions from third-parties, like your mobile provider.

There is explicit content filtering, which you can set on an individual basis so the primary account holder is in charge of what family users can and cannot hear.

Apple Music

Family price: $14.99 / £14.99
Family members: 6
Explicit lyric filtering: Yes

Apple Music boasts 60 million songs and access to the Apple Music 1 (previously Beats 1) radio station. It is supported on Apple and Android devices, Apple HomePod, Sonos, PC, Mac and Amazon Echo devices but not Google Home devices at the moment.

Apple Music includes anything you might have in your iTunes collection including music you purchased from Apple, and you can sync iCloud music that you upload - with each member able to share iTunes purchases with the family.

Apple Music costs £14.99/$14.99 for a family of 6 and everyone will have to have an Apple ID to be part of the family - as it is with Family Sharing. You can create an Apple ID for children under the age of 13 using your own email address as an emergency backup; kids over 13 can create their own Apple ID.

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You can join a family if you've been an Apple Music subscriber previously, keeping your playlists and so on.

You can also set content restrictions in Apple Music. This needs to be set on each device (it's not universal), but the settings can be locked with a PIN code.

Amazon Music Unlimted

Family price: $14.99 / £14.99
Family members: 6
Explicit lyric filtering: Yes

While Amazon Music offers some 'free' access via Prime subscriptions in Prime Music, for the full 60 million songs you'll need to take out a proper Amazon Music subscription - Amazon Music Unlimited. Prime Music only has a catalogue of 2 million.

The Unlimited family account gives you 6 members and each user gets an individual account; each member needs to be at least 13 years old to have an Amazon account, so it's different to other Amazon Household accounts - like Kindle.

A regular individual subscription is £9.99 for non-Prime subscribers or £7.99 for those who also subscribe to Prime. There are also other subscription options though, including one for use on an Echo device.

You can upload music to Amazon Music Unlimited and music you purchase from Amazon - including AutoRip tracks - are included. Amazon Music Unlimited can also be 'cast' to Echo devices on the same network using Alexa Cast.

There is explicit lyric filtering available and you'll have to enable this on each individual device, but there's no PIN protection so can easily be turned off.

YouTube Music

Family price: $14.99 / £14.99
Family members: 6
Explicit lyric filtering: Yes

YouTube Music takes over from Google Play Music and offers a huge catalogue of official albums, playlists, singles and videos. It can be accessed on Android or Apple devices, PC, Mac, supports Google Cast streaming to many speakers, and is supported natively on Google Home devices.

The family subscription requires all users to have a Google Account, which then allows up to 6 family members (including the bill payer) all living at the same address. You can only change family groups once per year. You can include children that you have setup using Family Link if your child is under the age of 13.

It costs £14.99 / $14.99 for the family, a regular individual subscription is £9.99.

There is explicit lyric filtering and Android devices have separate parental controls in Google Play that will allow you to exclude explicit content in music.

Deezer

Family price: $14.99 / £14.99
Family members: 6
Explicit lyric filtering: Yes

Deezer offers 56 million music streaming tracks and plays nice with a wide range of platforms, although the family account will only work on Android, iPhone, PC and the web player.

The family price is £14.99/$14.99 and that again gives you 6 users - all of which have to be living at the same address - with separate profiles. Deezer is keen to point out that you'll get plenty of content perfect for younger kids with its Deezer Kids option providing music picks for under 12s.

There's a limit of 13 devices for the Deezer family account - 3 for the main subscriber and then 2 each for the secondary users.

There is explicit lyric filtering that can be enabled on each playing device.

With playlist-based streaming now the dominant form of music consumption, mysterious playlist curators have immense power in deciding whose music gets into the ears of consumers. Here, we clear some of the fog surrounding these tastemakers, and the playlists they control.

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Guest post by Rutger Ansley Rosenborg of Chartmetric

Curators are the sometimes mysterious movers and doers of the streaming world. They determine what’s hot, what’s not, and what might have a shot — and all with a playlist.

It might not be a surprise to anyone that Apple and Spotify are themselves the biggest curators in the streaming world — after all, they control their own DSPs. But let’s start with the green giant, Spotify, which, according to our database of the most user-relevant playlists and curators, has a whopping 270K+ curators, 1.1M+ playlists, and 8.6K+ self-curated playlists, the latter boasting a staggering 1.3B+ followers.

How does that work, if Spotify’s total user count is something like 250M, counting both premium and ad-based users? Well, listeners must like Spotify playlists enough to follow tons of them.

On the other side of the ring, Apple Music has 780 curators and almost 60K playlists, according to our music business-relevant database for the platform, which is considerably less than its Swedish rival; however, Apple’s premium user base is about half of Spotify’s. Much of Apple’s editorial curation, by the way, is splintered into genre-based curators.

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C’est tout? Non, less is more for French streaming service Deezer, which interestingly features official curators composed of a combination of geographic or genre-based anonymous editors and face-forward editors like Fabio from Brazil, Emilia from Romania, and Stanislav from Russia. While Deezer’s total playlist count is low, on the order of 15K or so dispersed amongst a bunch of official Deezer editors, each editor ranges from thousands to multi-millions of followers. Total curator count for the platform is just a bit more than 1.1K, at least in terms of the playlists and curators that we measure as being most relevant to Chartmetric users and industry insiders.

There are also Amazon Music’s mysterious Music Experts, who dictate all of the playlists in that platform’s ecosystem, from All Hits to Country Heat, and Pop Culture to I Miss the ‘90s. Cleaning the House is a good one too, by the way.

But we’re talking macro level here. Let’s get into the weeds.

As a curator, Spotify is clearly geared toward frontline pop hits, with its Today’s Top Hits playlist absolutely dominating the platform in terms of both listenership, at an estimated average of 3M a month, and also follower count, at 25M. Apple Music, on the other hand, is a bit more evenly dispersed, with its Hip-Hop, Alternative, and Pop sub-curators sitting at around 14K playlists each. Jazz, Rock, Indie, and Country hover between 800 and 1K playlists.

Deezer is a bit more difficult to parse, numbers wise, because its editorial curation focus is more geographic-based. Suffice it to say, you’re probably not going to want to hit up Fabio for a Country Western pitch anytime soon.

But let’s zoom in even more: What about those other curators — you know, the ones who don’t have corporate backing?

Well, actually … Fltr, Digster, and Topsify are three of the biggest third-party playlist curators, and they’re owned by Sony, Universal, and Warner, respectively. While it’s no secret where their curation interests lie, there are still important artist tastemakers like Dmitri Vegas & Like Mike, who boast close to 2M EDM-focused followers, and BTS, who have close to 4.3M BTS-focused followers. There are also market-specific influencers like Hugo Gloss, who boasts 1.4M Brazil-focused followers.

What’s clear here is that the more accessible the curator, the smaller the playlist and follower count, which makes tracking 28-day follower change super important for scoping out the up-and-coming independent curators with some skin in the game. That said, Spotify and Deezer do seem to be somewhat more accessible than Apple Music and Amazon Music, who have a tighter grip on the curation wheel, making their platforms more difficult to penetrate for third-party tastemakers and playlist-hungry artists alike.