<i>For people who are willing to pay for a music service, it seems pretty hard to beat Google Music&#x27;s value proposition. Because it&#x27;s a Google service, it can afford to compete as much as it needs to on price</i><p>I thought something similar about XBox Music, I figured with Microsoft&#x27;s money it would never go away and it would have at least as good a selection of music as other music only services. I am right on the former, wrong on the latter. When I gave Spotify a shot I found they had a larger catalog of songs than XBox Music (particularly indie bands).<p>I guess it comes down to XBox Music is probably a loss leader or at least a runt service that doesn&#x27;t get much love at MS but at Spotify, it&#x27;s their ONLY business. Maybe Google is different than MS as far as how much attention they put into their music licensing (and there is the added YouTube benefit you mentioned) but it&#x27;s something to consider (or at least really compare catalog access).