How do you get your music?

Alisha Auen, Staff Writer/Social Media Coordinator

iTunes Radio, Pandora, Spotify, Beats Music and Slacker Radio are some of the different music services people use on the daily. Each of these music services are very different in their own way and range in prices.

Many use and love these music services, while others prefer to just illegally download music. Although downloading music illegally may save you some money, so can some of these free music services.

iTunes Radio, Pandora and Slacker Radio are all free music services. The downside to them all is the ads that come along every few songs and there is only a certain number of skips on each playlist. Pandora used to be one of the top music services, but with so many new ones coming out Pandora is losing many listeners. Compared to the other two free music services, Pandora has less songs and artists to chose from.

There is also iTunes newest idea, Apple Music. This allows users to access any song on iTunes. The first three trial months are free and after that you pay $9.99 a month, which is worth it for any music lover.

Spotify and Beats Music are other options similar to Apple Music. Spotify gives you options to millions of songs just like Apple Music and you are paying the exact same price for it. The difference between the two is Spotify lets you build your own playlist unlike Apple Music. Beats is also very similar to Spotify in price and in structure. It was created by musician and producer Dr. Dre which may appeal to a different audience.