Beats Music announced yesterday on its website that it will be launching itsnew music streaming subscription service in the U.S. on January 21. The service (formely dubbed "Daisy") was developed by Interscope/Geffen/A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine along with Dr. Dre, Beats Electronics president Luke Wood and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor. The subscription offers a catalog of more than 20 million fully licensed songs from both major and independent labels.
The cost of a Beats Music subscription is $9.99 per month, though the company will offer a free trial for the launch. The service runs on iOS, Android and Windows phones as well as through the web.
In a 2012 interview with The New Yorker, Reznor described the site as a "platform in which the machine and the human would collide more intimately." He said the service "uses mathematics to offer suggestions to the listener... [but also] would present choices based partly on suggestions made by connoisseurs...like having your own guy when you go into the record store, who knows what you like but can also point you down some paths you wouldn't necessarily have encountered."
About a month ago, BeatsMusic.com opened so that potential users could reserve their preferred usernames. Read the full press release here, and let us know if you'll be subscribing in the comments section below!
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