YouTube Music and Premium: Google launches huge rollout of streaming service to rival Spotify and Apple Music

YouTube has launched its music offering across the world, hoping to take on streaming services such as Spotify. The company will make YouTube Music available in the UK and 16 other countries, it has announced. The launch comes at the same time as YouTube Premium, a paid-for service that offers people videos they would not normally be able to watch. YouTube is one of the primary destinations for music streaming on the internet. It is used to listen to both official and illegitimate uploads of songs, many of which can't be found on official streaming services.