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For individuals, YouTube Music Premium costs $12 per month while YouTube Premium, which includes a subscription to the former, costs $16 per. If you choose to pay for an annual plan, the company will knock two months of payments off either tier. Ideally, you'd be picking up YouTube Premium for the sake of ad-free viewing (and downloading) of all the content you watch, with some of your fee going towards the creators. In those cases, you're likely getting your money's worth. When it comes to YouTube Music, it's a little more debatable.

To start with, most people hardly notice the difference in supposed streaming sound quality. YouTube Music's top streaming rate of 256 kbps pales in comparison to Spotify or Apple Music, which offer among the best streaming audio quality for music . Still, YouTube Music should provide good enough listening for a run or sitting through a flight with a pair of noise-cancelling headphones .…