Apple Music enjoy 50 million people

In an interview with Bloomberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the music service Apple Music already has more than 50 million subscribers, taking into account users of the trial version.

Growth continues

From the words of representatives of the company it follows that over the past month the general audience of Apple Music has grown by 2 million. In April, the service had 40 million paid subscribers and another 8 million users who connected a free three-month period. Service is second only to Swedish Spotify, which recently announced 170 million active users and 75 million paid subscriptions.

Not only music

Tim Cook also talked about plans for creating entertainment video content - the company is working on original films and TV shows. In this area, Apple will invest at least $ 1 billion. There are no official details yet, but insiders report that 12 projects have already been planned for October of last year. For nine of them, a full season is ordered without a pilot episode. The rumors also mentioned the continuation of Spielberg's series "Amazing Stories."

Source: Bloomberg