Officially GoneINTERNET & TECH

Google Play Music

Google's music locker let users upload their own libraries beside a streaming catalogue, then yielded to YouTube Music.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY100/100
CATEGORYInternet & Tech
LIFECYCLE2011—2020
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Quick facts

Existence state
Officially Gone
Peak stage
general availability
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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What it was

A music streaming, purchasing and cloud-locker service operated by Google.

A music streaming, purchasing and cloud-locker service operated by Google. Users could upload tens of thousands of personal tracks, buy downloads and combine them with subscription streaming in one library.

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Existence timeline

Music service launches

Google opens purchases and personal-library storage to the public.

All Access streaming

A subscription catalogue joins uploaded and purchased music.

YouTube Music successor

Google launches the product intended to consolidate its music strategy.

Playback ends

Google begins disabling use across all regions.

Service closes

Google Play Music is no longer publicly available.

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Why it ended

Google transferred playlists, uploads and purchases toward YouTube Music, stopped playback region by region and closed the service in December 2020.

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Last confirmed trace

Takeout exports, downloaded purchases and migrated YouTube Music libraries preserve some user material; the original locker and store are gone.
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What it left behind

Its closure ended one of the largest mainstream services that treated personally owned files and licensed streaming as equal parts of one collection.

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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.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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