It's here. It finally happened. Just shy of its ninth birthday, Google Play Music is dead. May it rest in peace, with part of its spirit living transf

Remembering Google Play Music: A mixtape for my favorite streaming music service

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2021-07-26 03:30:04

It's here. It finally happened. Just shy of its ninth birthday, Google Play Music is dead. May it rest in peace, with part of its spirit living transferred to its successor and slaughterer, YouTube Music. Many have paid their respects to the service over the last few weeks as the shutdown commenced, but I felt it only right to mourn a great music service with some music tracks itself.

Here are the songs that exemplify and exalt the Google service I loved above all others, over Gmail and Keep and even over YouTube itself. And let's start with where the ending began: with a death declaration.

Google Play Music had been declared dead so many times by 2018 rolled around that I started to think the service immortal, even with the re-launch of YouTube Music. Even YouTube executives got in on calling GPM dead during the re-launch, which led to bloggers and streaming music nerds far and wide to start speculating as to the service's death timeline.

YouTube Music took two full years to even approach feature parity with Google Play Music — and considering the dismal state of casting on YTM, it may never reach it — but that didn't stop people from thinking the service would die before the end of 2018. Then by the middle of 2019. Then by 2020.

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