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Las platforms of streaming music are favorites by millions of Internet users, being Spotify y Apple Music two of the most far-reaching.
Statista data reveals that, in 2022 alone, the app created by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had 155.6 million subscribers globally; while the one developed by Mac registered 77.9 million subscribers.
But when we limit it to Mexico, the penetration of both platforms differs a lot. The CIU revealed that, at the end of last year, Spotify it had 85.8% of the total market share. In the case of Apple Music reported only 3%.
However, what seems to continue to increase is the consumption of music through these digital channels. The Mexican Association of Phonogram Producers (Amprofon) estimates that 37% of music listeners in Mexico listen to it on streaming apps, with an average of almost 26 hours per week.
Apple Music or Spotify, which is the streaming music app that consumes more data?
One of the most frequent doubts about any mobile application is the cost of data, from which it is neither exempt nor Spotify in Apple Music. But do you know which of these platforms of streaming music consume more internet data?
Make Us Of, a website specializing in technology, concluded that Apple Music is the app that consumes the most data for a song that is approximately three minutes long, thus surpassing Spotify. This is because for a song that is approximately three minutes long, your cost is as follows:
- Calidad High Efficiency: 1.5 Megabytes (MB)
- High quality: 6MB
- Lossless (noise isolation): 36 MB
Spotifyinstead, it records the following data consumption per three-minute song, according to Whistle Out:
- Normal quality: 2MB
- High quality: 3.5MB
- Extreme quality: 7.5 MB
Prices of streaming music platforms 2023
To this day so much Spotify as Apple Musicand even Amazon Music have different prices, depending on the characteristics of each service.
For example, Spotify manages a cost of 115 pesos for the individual monthly subscription. If it is a double, the price is 149 pesos, while the family one reaches 179 pesos, 57 pesos for users who are students, in addition to giving you a free trial month.
Talking about Apple Music are precio subscription is 59 pesos for students, the individual is worth 115 pesos and the family is 179 pesos.
Now that if your interest is in contracting Amazon Music, the price of your subscription is 99 pesos, which also includes access to its Prime Video platform and free deliveries buying in its marketplace. But if you want to access a broader catalog of music, its Unlimited version costs 99 pesos per month.
