Beats Music
Beats built a streaming service around human curation and sentence-shaped playlists, then Apple bought the company and folded its short life into Apple Music.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally launched subscription music-streaming service created by Beats Electronics.
The app mixed editorial playlists with a feature that completed prompts such as location, activity and companions to select music for a moment.
Existence timeline
Beats Music opens in the United States as a paid streaming platform.
Apple agrees to buy Beats Electronics and Beats Music.
Apple presents a successor built partly from the acquired service.
Beats Music begins directing listeners toward Apple Music.
Users receive final migration instructions.
The standalone streaming product becomes unavailable.
Why it ended
After acquiring Beats, Apple stopped new subscriptions when Apple Music launched and closed the original service on 30 November 2015.
Last confirmed trace
Application packages, screenshots, playlists and migration documentation preserve the standalone service and its transition.
What it left behind
Its curators, technology and emphasis on contextual listening became part of Apple Music rather than disappearing completely.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.