Google Play Music Will Start Shutting Down for Everyone in October

Aug. 5, 2020

If you weren’t already aware, Google has beenworking tirelesslytotransitionits users over from the Google Play Music app to YouTube Music. The de facto music streaming service from Google going forward is YouTube Music. Google Play Music, as revealed in anofficial blog post, will come to a close starting in September in select markets.

Both the streaming services have existed alongside each other over the past couple of years. Google has been hard at work porting useful features of Play Music to YouTube Music over the past year. It evenlaunched a transfer toolto easily take your music from one app to another – giving you enough reason to switch.

Now, it appears like enough people have jumped ship and Google is ready to pull the plug on its older streaming service.

The official blog post confirms that Google Play Music will become unusable in South Africa and New Zealand in September later this year. The rest of the world will follow closely in October. Users will not be able to stream music, starting September but the ability to make purchases (single or albums) from the app is going away at the end of this month.

“Starting in late August, users will no longer be able to purchase and pre-order music or upload and download music from Google Play Music through Music Manager,”an official blog post reveals.