**Tl;dr: Spotify is better than Apple Music as it offers personalised suggestions, free plans and a great selection of niche playlists.** Spotify is better than Apple Music as it introduces you to new songs, allows you to browse the specially selected playlists for every mood possible (even a playlist for an event as niche as being in a car full of boys). Spotify even creates a personalised presentation of your music habits at the end of every year. To be an Apple music supporter you must know your own music taste inside out, with few suggestions on offer, only a mere search tab to play the songs you already know, where is the fun in that? While the pricing of both app subscriptions is the same (around ten pounds a month for a standard plan) Spotify caters for more users. They offer a free tier for those who cannot afford to go premium. While Apple does not offer anything for those who do not want to fork out ten pounds a month. Spotify is also great for finding all your favourite artist’s best work in one place. Type in almost any artist in Spotify and it will present you with their best and most popular tracks all in one prepared playlist, so you do not have to go through the effort of preparing one! Spotify's daily mix playlist is another great, personal feature. Spotify analyses the kinds of genres you frequently play and creates multiple playlists of songs it thinks you may enjoy every day- and normally always will. In turn Spotify is better than apple music, especially if you want to discover new music and are adventurous in you music taste.

**TL;DR – Spotify and Apple Music both have shady practices as far as paying musicians goes, but Spotify has been especially weird with privacy and undervaluing art.** As a Spotify user myself, I agree with everything you've mentioned. They win it by a landslide as far as accessibility and motivation for music consumption goes. Unfortunately, the music industry student in me has to come out even though no one asked for it. In recent news, Spotify has secured a patent that will monitor their users to an unbelievable amount. The patent is for their product categorized by "Identification of taste attributes from an audio signal" with the goal to "gauge listeners' 'emotional state, gender, age, or accent,' in order to recommend new music." It's overwhelming and terrifying to read this. The article below continues by addressing how Spotify doesn't want to give users the "tedious" step of providing this information consensually. For an app that does such a great job at providing a platform to discover new music, why is the company trying to make something out of these arbitrary factors – especially a listener's emotional state and accent? How could that gauge a listener's music taste based on *their own taste*? It's manipulative at best. They put users in this wonderful state of consistent and personal music discovery and now they'll take advantage of who they are. Now from a musician's standpoint – Spotify is actually worse than Apple Music at paying a fair share to their artists. They pay $3.18 per 1000 streams after hitting 336,842 plays per month as opposed to Apple Music's $5.60 per 1000 streams after hitting 200,272 plays per month. The modern music industry is structured in this horrid way with streaming at the forefront of it; it's going to take a lot of change for royalties to be good for *all* artists in the first place, but Apple Music is already miles ahead. Spotify even wants to offer to boost artists' algorithm placement for reduced royalty rates. If that doesn't speak to the way art is valued so much less than technology, I don't know what does. Spotify is the worst and so is Apple Music to be fair, but I haven't heard of Apple Music's dark plan for music listening domination yet. https://consequenceofsound.net/2021/01/spotify-patent-monitor-users-speech/ https://www.soundmaximum.com/music-streaming-rates/ https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/11/spotify-artist-algorithm-reduced-royalties/

Apple Music and Spotify are equally as good as one another. Although people may argue that one is better, both have the same advantages and there is not one company which can be definitively proven to be better than the other. It simply comes down to your personal taste and what you want from a streaming service which determines which company you might prefer. Both streaming services have the same amount of music available to stream. Apple Music boasts over [70 million songs]( https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-music/) on their website. Spotify also claims to have [70 million songs]( https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/#:~:text=Discover%2C%20manage%20and%20share%20over,and%20ad%2Dfree%20listening%20experience.) available for its users to stream. The pricing for these two streaming platforms is also identical. Both cost $9.99/£9.99 a month for an individual and offer family plans and student discounts for identical prices too. In all the ways that it matters, Apple Music and Spotify are equally as good as each-other. They both provide the same services for the same prices. There is nothing which can outright identify one company being the better streaming service. Ultimately, it is the minute differences between the two platforms which help people decide what company to use to download and listen to their music. For example, if you were into podcasts Spotify would be the better platform for you, but if you preferred to listen to the radio instead then Apple Music is the more suited service. Although people might still argue that one is better than the other, I personally cannot identify any details that would make me inclined to choose one service over the other.