Google Play Music

Google Play Music
Developer	Google
Type	Music and video streaming
Launch date	November 16, 2011
Discontinued	December 3, 2020
Platform(s)	Android, Android TV, iOS, web browser, Wear OS, Pixel Watch
Status	Discontinued
Website	play.google.com/music

Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service and an online music locker operated by Google as part of its Google Play line of services. The service was announced on May 10, 2011; after a six-month, invitation-only beta period, it was publicly launched on November 16, 2011, and shut down in December 2020.

Users with standard accounts could store up to 50,000 songs from their personal libraries at no cost. A paid Google Play Music subscription allowed users to on-demand stream any song in the Google Play Music catalog and in YouTube Music Premium catalog and in several territories in YouTube Premium catalog. Also, users could purchase additional tracks from the music store section of Google Play. Google Play Music mobile apps also supported offline playback of tracks stored on the device.