SoundCloud launches $9.99 music streaming service

PanARMENIAN.Net - SoundCloud’s subscription music service is debuting Tuesday, March 29: it's called SoundCloud Go. For $9.99 a month, you get access to songs from popular artists, ad-free streaming, and offline sync, the Verge reports.

SoundCloud Go boasts a massive library of 125 million songs, most of which are only on SoundCloud.

Musicians have been uploading millions and millions of songs to SoundCloud since its launch in 2007. Those songs have always been available for free — and they'll remain that way even after Go’s launch — but now, you’ll be able to play SoundCloud tracks right alongside the big hits you're addicted to. SoundCloud thinks this extensive library is something a lot people are willing to pay for, the Verge says.

"Before, you'd have to use two or three services to get all the tracks into different playlists," SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung told The Verge. "It feels very different when you can have one playlist with everything you want, whether it's back catalog Drake or a beef track he just recorded."