Google Play Music
Google's music locker let users upload their own libraries beside a streaming catalogue, then yielded to YouTube Music.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
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.
Existence timeline
Google opens purchases and personal-library storage to the public.
A subscription catalogue joins uploaded and purchased music.
Google launches the product intended to consolidate its music strategy.
Google begins disabling use across all regions.
Google Play Music is no longer publicly available.
Why it ended
Google transferred playlists, uploads and purchases toward YouTube Music, stopped playback region by region and closed the service in December 2020.
Last confirmed trace
Takeout exports, downloaded purchases and migrated YouTube Music libraries preserve some user material; the original locker and store are gone.
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.
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.