4 Ways to get YouTube Music Premium for free

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March 20, 2024

YouTube Music is an online music and video streaming service. The music catalog is quite large, and you’ll be able to find plenty of obscure content here that you may not elsewhere, including mixtapes, live recordings, one-offs, and more. There are currently over 100 million official tracks, according to Google. The most basic level of access to YouTube Music is free. You can stream music, make playlists, watch videos, and get recommendations at this level. You can take a look at song lyrics and skip tracks as well.

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Is YouTube Music free?

Same as Spotify, YouTube Music is available both as a free ad-supported service and a paid-tier called YouTube Music Premium.

The free access level is ad-supported. You cannot turn off the screen or use other apps simultaneously when on a mobile device. You also can’t download music to your device for offline listening. You even don’t need an account to use the free tier to listen to any songs.

A YouTube Music Premium tier is available to remove the adverts, give you background listening on your mobile device (so you can exit the app and continue listening) and to let you download songs for offline playback.

How much does YouTube Music cost?

YouTube Music only

  • Individual: $10.99/month or $109.99/year
  • Family: $16.99/month – Add up to 5 family members (ages 13+) in your household.
  • Student: $5.49/month

You can also subscribe to YouTube Premium, which includes YouTube Music Premium.

  • Individual: $13.99/month or $139.99/year
  • Family: $22.99/month – Add up to 5 family members (ages 13+) in your household.
  • Student: $7.99/month

Remember not to subscribe to premium from YouTube or YouTube Music app on iOS device, which will cost more as Apple gets a commission fee.

How to get YouTube Music Premium for free?

Option 1. YouTube Music Premium one month free trial

YouTube Music Premium costs $10.99/month with one month free trial. To get the most from the free trial, you can get the Family plan. YouTube family plans allow you to share your YouTube paid membership with up to 5 family members who live within the same residential address.

Annual plans are only for individual subscribers, but doesn’t offer free trial.

Option 2. Get free YouTube Music from Third Party Offers

YouTube Music is included in YouTube Premium, which also offers one month free trial. Besides, there are many third-party promotions offering YouTube Premium free trail for 6 months, from which you can get free YouTube Music for the same period.

  1. Get YouTube Premium Free from OnePlus – Up to 6 Months
  2. Get YouTube Premium Free from Xiaomi – Up to 6 Months
  3. Get YouTube Premium Free from Samsung – Up to 4 Months
  4. Get YouTube Premium Free from Times Prime – 2+2 months
  5. Get YouTube Premium Free from Best Buy – 3 Months
  6. Get YouTube Premium Free from OPPO – 3 Months

Option 3. Google Pixel Watch Users get 3 months of YouTube Music Premium

This YouTube Music Premium 3 month free trial promotion is open to participants in the United States who purchase and activate an eligible Wear OS device by October 5, 2025 at 11:59pm PST. Offer only available to users who are not current YouTube Premium or YouTube Music Premium subscribers, and have not been YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium, YouTube Red, or Google Play Music subscribers nor participated in a YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium, Google Play Music, or YouTube Red trial before. Offer must be redeemed by November 5, 2025 at 11:59pm PST. Valid form of payment required at sign-up, but you will not be charged until the trial period expires. At the end of the trial period, you will be automatically charged the individual subscription price, currently $9.99/month on a monthly recurring basis. You can cancel your trial at no charge at any time before the trial is over. You can also cancel your YouTube Music Premium paid subscription at any time. Offers may not be combined with any other promotion, discount, code, and/or offer. No refunds for partial billing periods are available. Offer requires a Google account. Must be 18 years or older. Promotional value of offer nontransferable, not for resale, and not redeemable for cash or cash equivalent.

With YouTube Music Premium, you can keep YouTube Music playing in the background, listen to the world of music without ads and download your favorite songs, albums and playlists offline.

Option 4. Get YouTube Music Premium free forever with Pazu YouTube Music Converter

Is it possible to download songs or enjoy ad-free listening even with a YouTube Music Free tier? It’s a definite “Yes” after following the steps in the next part. 

Pazu YouTube Music Converter is designed to download and convert YouTube Music to your desktop for permanent offline playback. With Pazu YouTube Music Converter, you can download ad-free songs with a free or premium YouTube Music account. It converts YouTube Music tracks to MP3, AAC, FLAC, M4A, WAV, and AIFF. There is no need to install the YouTube Music app, you can directly download music from the YouTube Music Web Player. It can download lossless songs from YouTube Music with full ID3 tags. Once the songs from YouTube are in plain formats, you can keep them on your devices and play them on any device. Let’s take a look at the detailed steps.

1. Run Pazu YouTube Music Converter 

To get started, download, install and run Pazu YouTube Music Converter on your Windows PC, which features a built-in YouTube Music web player.

If you have already purchased a license, click the key icon to register the converter. If not, continue using the trial version.

YouTube Music Converter

You don’t need to sign in to your YouTube Music account.

2. Choose output format

Tap on the Settings gear icon to change the output settings. The default output format is MP3. Pazu YouTube Music Converter also supports M4A, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, AAC. You can also change bitrate, samplerate according to your needs.

YouTube Music Converter settings

3. Add songs

Click a playlist or album you want to download. Then click the red Add to list button to load songs.

choose YouTube Music playlists

All songs in the playlist will be added by default. You can uncheck the songs you don’t want to get.

choose YouTube Music songs

4. Click Convert button

After selecting the songs, click Convert button to start downloading YouTube Music songs to the format you choose. You will see a progress circle indicating your music is downloading.

convert YouTube Music to MP3

Once the songs have been downloaded, click the folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free YouTube Music songs in the format you choose. You can then play YouTube Music with MP3 player, DJ software, or save them to USB drive, external hard drive, etc.

To view or manage all music you’ve downloaded, click the clock icon on the top right corner of the YouTube Music Converter interface.

YouTube Music to MP3 converter