YouTube Music Premium: The subscription ($9.99) version of YouTube Music.It’s Google’s competitor to Spotify and Apple Music. YouTube Music: A separate music streaming service with its own app that allows you to listen to music for free.YouTube Premium: The site’s primary paid subscription service.Since there are so many brands and services now under the YouTube banner, here’s a handy guide to help you tell them apart: However, this changed to YouTube Premium following the rebranding of YouTube Music as an entirely separate app. Before 2018, that was the site’s subscription tier. You might be familiar with a service called YouTube Red. Google’s naming schemes have always been a bit of a mess, and the same is true of YouTube. subscribers, it currently costs $11.99 a month, and this includes a YouTube Music Premium subscription.