With a SoundCloud Go or Go + subscription, users can stream music offline and without advertising.
SoundCloud Go
SoundCloud’s two paid music services are now also available in the Netherlands. That’s a year after it was launched in the United States. A subscription for the standard Go subscription costs 5.99 euros per month and for Go + you pay 9.99 euros. That is, if you purchase the subscription directly with SoundCloud shut down. If you do it via the iOS app, it will cost you 7.99 euros and 12.99 euros per month respectively due to a surcharge from Apple.
Three SoundCloud subscriptions
In addition to the subscriptions, you can also continue to listen to the service for free, but what are the differences?
- SoundCloud Free: This version has commercials, but on the other hand, you don’t pay anything. You do get access to more than 120 million songs from established, but especially emerging artists. Don’t expect full albums like you know from Spotify.
- SoundCloud Go ($ 5.99 per month): Subscribers get access to the same catalog as free users, but without ads and with the option to listen offline.
- SoundCloud Go (9.99 euros per month): In addition to the Free and Go music catalog, you get about 30 million extra songs. That ‘extra’ offer corresponds to the catalogs of Spotify and Apple Music. There are also no ads and you can listen offline.
Additional music and mixes
As a complete service that can compete with Spotify and Apple Music, you will therefore have to choose the latest subscription. You pay the same amount for that, but you get a lot more music extra in return. These are mainly smaller bands and artists, such as DJs who publish their mixes.
SoundCloud has updated its app for the subscription features. You can download it from the link below. Although there are reports that SoundCloud is in dire straits, the music service still has 175 million users worldwide, according to the latest figures. The company hopes to make more money with the new subscriptions.