SoundCloud: The Music You Love vs YouTube Music
SoundCloud: The Music You Love
SoundCloud Global Limited & Co KG
App Store
$4.17M/mo
~$50.10M/yr · 323.9M installs
VS
YouTube Music
Google
App Store
$15.96M/mo
~$191.49M/yr · 257.4M installs
Revenue winner
YouTube Music wins
+282% vs other
Installs winner
SoundCloud: The Music You Love wins
+26% vs other
MAU winner
SoundCloud: The Music You Love wins
+26% vs other
Rating winner
SoundCloud: The Music You Love wins
+2% vs other
Why YouTube Music is winning
Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- YouTube Music earns roughly 4× more per month than SoundCloud: The Music You Love - $15.96M vs $4.17M.
- Premium pricing. YouTube Music charges $15.99/mo vs SoundCloud: The Music You Love's $7.49/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
- Charts placement. YouTube Music ranks #15 on the US grossing chart vs SoundCloud: The Music You Love at #63 - chart placement is a self-reinforcing flywheel.
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Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
SoundCloud: The Music You Love
vs
YouTube Music
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$4.17M
▶
$15.96M
Annual revenue (est.)
$50.10M
▶
$191.49M
Lifetime installs (est.)
323.9M
◀
257.4M
Monthly active users (est.)?
22.3M
◀
17.8M
App Store rating
4.84★
◀
4.77★
Total ratings
1.9M
◀
1.5M
US grossing rank
#63
▶
#15
Cheapest monthly sub
$7.49
▶
$15.99
IAP tiers detected
5 tiers
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5 tiers
- Category
- Music
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Nov 3, 2009
- Last updated
- Jul 1, 2026
- File size
- 260.3 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 8.67.1
- Languages
- Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian +4 more
- Category
- Music
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Nov 12, 2015
- Last updated
- Jun 29, 2026
- File size
- 267.1 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 9.26
- Languages
- AF, SQ, AM, Arabic, HY, AZ +66 more
SoundCloud: The Music You Love trajectory
YouTube Music trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, SoundCloud: The Music You Love or YouTube Music? v
YouTube Music earns about $15.96M per month, while SoundCloud: The Music You Love earns about $4.17M. That is a 3.8× revenue gap (~$11.78M more per month for YouTube Music). Annual revenue: SoundCloud: The Music You Love ≈ $50.10M/year, YouTube Music ≈ $191.49M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, SoundCloud: The Music You Love or YouTube Music? v
SoundCloud: The Music You Love leads with about 323.9M estimated downloads vs 257.4M for YouTube Music - a 1.3× gap. SoundCloud: The Music You Love's App Store downloads are estimated from 1.9M ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. YouTube Music's App Store downloads are estimated from 1.5M ratings.
Are SoundCloud: The Music You Love and YouTube Music in the same App Store category and competing for the same money? v
Yes - both apps sit in the Music category, which means they compete directly for the same paying users and category-level wallet share. Direct competitors, head-to-head.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do SoundCloud: The Music You Love and YouTube Music offer? v
SoundCloud: The Music You Love: IAP range 5 tiers detected. YouTube Music: IAP range 5 tiers detected. SoundCloud: The Music You Love runs a "Subscription (~$7.49/mo) · calibrated by US grossing rank #63" monetization model; YouTube Music runs "Subscription (~$15.99/mo) · calibrated by US grossing rank #15". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, SoundCloud: The Music You Love or YouTube Music? v
SoundCloud: The Music You Love edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.8 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: SoundCloud: The Music You Love 1.9M ratings, YouTube Music 1.5M ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these SoundCloud: The Music You Love vs YouTube Music revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $4.17M for SoundCloud: The Music You Love and $15.96M for YouTube Music are derived from App Store grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Music) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
How do I compare SoundCloud: The Music You Love or YouTube Music to a different App Store app? v
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