also used his WSJD Live appearance to tout Apple’s latest Apple Music subscription numbers. To date, the service has amassed 6.5 million users who stayed on past the expiration of their three-month free subscription.
Six and a half million is a large number, and it’s one that makes Apple Music the fastest-growing streaming service launch to date — it took Spotify five years to hit 6 million. That said, it’s smaller than many expected. In August, Apple said it had hit 11 million free trial users, which suggests that convincing free users to shell out for the service hasn’t been as easy as the company had hoped.