You'll never hear an ad if you pay for Spotify Premium or Apple Music, either. For $10 per month, you get access to tens of millions of on-demand tracks from artists both major and obscure. The content offerings for the two paid services are remarkably similar. The biggest differences between the two streaming juggernauts exist in the margins, so that's where we'll look as we try to determine who has the better value between Apple Music and Spotify. Both services cost $10 per month, so it's not a simple math problem.

That's sort of a tough question to answer. Which one should you actually use, though? Spotify has offered a premium subscription for longer, but Apple has picked up considerable steam in recent years. While alternatives like Pandora, Tidal, and Amazon Music exist and have their audiences, it certainly seems like the big battle right now is between Spotify and Apple Music.

It's never been easier to listen to any music you could possibly fathom, no matter where in the world you are, but that doesn't mean the choice of how to do that is easy.

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