With the release of YouTube Music, many people were excited to try out a new service. However, some were disappointed that background playback was only available with a YouTube Premium account.

Free users of YouTube Music in Canada will finally be able to listen to music in the background starting next month. Google announced via a news release that starting November 3, 2021, it would no ...

YouTube today announced that the YouTube Music app will enable background playback for free. The feature will be available first in Canada starting November 3 ...

October marks the first anniversary of the death of Google Play Music, leaving only the sad shadow of a replacement music service, YouTube Music, in Google's ecosystem. YouTube Music is showing just ...

YouTube Music free background listening will finally be a feature starting November 3. Unfortunately, this feature will only be available in Canada. There’s no word on when this feature might expand ...

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