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June 11, 2013 12:06 am GMT

How iTunes Radio Stacks Up Against Pandora, Spotify and Others

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Apple announced a new music streaming service on Monday called iTunes Radio, and although the company is already is a huge player in the digital music space, it will now go head-to-head with a whole slew of web radio leaders.

iTunes Radio is most similar to Pandora, allowing users to create custom radio stations based on songs and artists, while also discovering new music through "featured" radio stations. Although it's free for iTunes users, iTunes Radio will feature ads for those who are not iTunes Match subscribers.

Other companies such as Google and Xbox have had their sights set on Internet radio, too. In fact, just last month, Google announced its own streaming music platform — Google Play Music All Access. The Swedish-based Spotify, which launched in 2008 and came to the U.S. in 2011 — also has a radio service that serves its 24 million monthly active users and 6 million paying subscribers.

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