Why Apple Music needs a free tier

Apple Music has 36 million subscribers compared with 70 million Spotify listeners around the globe.

According to The Wall Street Journal ( go.macworld.com/ twsj), Apple is on track to overtake Spotify in U.S. paid subscribers, a sign that the three-year-old music service is making serious inroads in a highly competitive landscape. The report states that Apple Music has been gaining U.S. subscribers at a 3 percent higher clip than Spotify, a trend that would give