Google will shut down its Play Music service in the UK in October, to focus on its newer YouTube Music app.

Since, Google Play Music failed to comparatively attract as many subscribers against competitors like Spotify and Apple Music, despite being pre-installed as the default music app on millions of Android phones. Consequently, Google plans to axe service and make room for its newer app.

YouTube Music will offer more than 60 million songs to stream, but will not have a download store to buy music.

Google Music was launched in 2011. It let users store their existing music collection in the cloud, and buy more songs to download. It was later rebranded Google Play Music and added music streaming in 2013.

Google then launched YouTube Music as a competing product in 2015.

"We were the only game in town when it came to collecting all your music in one place," Brandon Bilinski, now head of product for YouTube Music noted. “It was tough because there was this little internal competition about where you put your focus," He further stated.

The company merged the two development teams in 2017, leading to a discussion about which music app should prevail.