We Want Music Streaming!

Apple went all out this year, bringing out some out of the world’s biggest celebrities such as Drake and The Weeknd to launch the official Apple Music streaming service to the world.

Last year saw the company buying Dr Dre’s Beats company for over a billion dollars, leading to the revival of the new Beats One under Apple.

What you might not have known is that Spotify has been reigning for years, but many are aiming to snatch away the company’s crown. With music streaming services being the ‘in’ thing since buying CDs is becoming scarcer by the day, Apple Music and even Tidal are slowly creeping up to Spotify’s level.

Currently, Apple Music is reaching the end of its three-month trial period allowing users to take advantage of the 24/7 hour radio hosted by Zane Lowe, an award-winning radio DJ from New Zealand, Connect (where listeners can view their favourite artists’ profiles and music like Wikipedia and Genius all in one) and getting even more personal with music.

Tidal features classical albums of the week, articles on artists around the world, recommendations, interviews and playlists suited to your liking. Discover everything there is to music exclusively, however, it comes at a price.

Spotify gets you access to millions of songs from all over the world with a free login process, plus you get to download music and listen offline when you’re away from an internet connection. Did we mention it’s ad-free?

As much as we love the sound of these, you’ll have to sacrifice a couple of dollars if you expect to get the real benefits. After all, not everything in life is free, right? But once again, Spotify wouldn’t be able to work in Namibia.

All these services, yet most of them are ‘currently not available in [our] country’. Quite annoying, we’d like to think, which is why we have to resort to YouTube and other dodgy ways to get our fix of music while waiting for the availability status to change – almost like being in a ‘it’s complicated’ relationship on Facebook.

While we’re at it, can Vevo make a plan for us too? Hopefully in the (near) future, we’ll get to see some changes. Until then, fingers crossed.

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