YouTube Music Key Beta

13 November 2014 - Press release

Music on YouTube that hits the right note

We’re making it easier to find new music on YouTube and rock out to old favorites. Plus, we’re starting the launch of a new subscription service that lets you watch and listen to music without ads, in the background or offline. 

A new home just for music

Starting today, you’ll see a new home just for music on your YouTube app for Android, iOS and on YouTube.com that shows your favorite music videos, recommended music playlists based on what you’re into and playlists of trending music across YouTube. You can find a playlist to perfectly fit your mood, whether that’s a morning motivators playlist or Boyce Avenue YouTube Mix. Check out the newest songs from channels you subscribe to, like FKA twigs or Childish Gambino. Or quickly find the songs you’ve played over and over and over again.

Full albums in high quality audio that are easy on your bandwidth 

If a song exists in this world, you can probably find it on YouTube. But until today you couldn’t easily find and play full albums. Now, you can see an artist’s discography on YouTube, and play a full album with both their official music videos and high-quality songs our music partners added to YouTube. 

Introducing YouTube Music Key beta

You’ve asked us for ways to listen to music without ads, to keep playing music videos even if you lock the screen or start using another app, and to play music even if you’re not connected to the Internet. That’s why today we're announcing YouTube Music Key beta, a monthly subscription service starting with the promotional price of £7.99/month (discounted from £9.99/month) that will give you all that—ad-free music, background play and offline viewing. It will also include a subscription to Google Play Music, with 30+ million songs, expert-curated playlists, and in the coming days, the ability to watch many YouTube official music videos right from the app. 

Thanks to your music videos, remixes, covers, and more, you’ve made YouTube the biggest music service on the planet. To turn YouTube into your perfect music service, we’re launching YouTube Music Key as a beta with our biggest music fans first, and then we’ll bring YouTube Music Key to the whole world together. So, if you see an invite in your app or email in the coming days and weeks, try it out for six months for free. 

If you’re interested in getting more info on the beta, you can let us know at YouTube.com/MusicKey.