I think it’s they’re intrinsically baked together as YouTube has had to license music for all those YouTube music videos, which are hugely popular as you could imagine.

Yeah. I don't use YouTube Music and don't care about downloading or background playback, so I'm not ready to pay $11.99/month just to hide ads.

As a music listener I love YouTube music app, it's great being able to listen to almost anything I want in high quality any time.

I tried a couple years ago, but didn't like it that much. Ended up going back to spotify.

I remember trying to get the Guardians of the Galaxy awesome mix, and it only had a youtube video with all songs glued together. Also, it was a bit weird experience overall because they matched so many random videos

When I tried it, I couldn't deal with it auto-generating a 'related' playlist whenever I played anything. (I pay for YT Premium, so if I could use YT Music then I wouldn't have to pay for Spotify.) How did you deal with that problem?

To get around that go to the artist and start a song from their top playlist or an album and it will just play their songs.

It is great, I just didn’t want it originally, but now that I paying for it I’ve started using it a fair bit.