According to Digital Music News, an industry source, who declined to reveal his name, claims that Apple's streaming music service Apple Music, just surpassed Spotify in terms of number of subscribers in the United States. According to Digital Music News, the source works at a major music distributor, based in the United States.
That report shows how to date, both Apple Music like Spotify have 20 million subscribers in the United States, but the Apple Music service outperforms it by very little. The specific figure has not been published as it would identify the source that provided this information.
Last February, The Wall Street Journal stated that Apple Music was gaining a large number of subscribers than Spotify. According to this newspaper, while the growth rate of Spotify was 2%, that of Apple Music rose to 5%. It seems that this rate of growth has been maintained over the months, as this newspaper stated that Apple Music would overtake Spotify this summer, as if finally to have been confirmed, albeit by very little.
In May, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said that Apple Music had more than 50 million users worldwide. including paid subscriptions and users who are using the 3-month free trial. However, that figure still puts Apple Music a bit far from Spotify, which according to the latest numbers has 75 million paying subscribers as of March 31, to which should be added another 99 million who make use of the free music service. offered by the Swedish firm.