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youtube made stars of Justin Bieber and sigh it's the go-to site for finding millions of music videos for free 1 billion people visit YouTube every month that's one out of seven people on the planet now YouTube wants to get people to pay for that music after two years in development it's launching music ki a subscription music streaming service YouTube will be competing with the likes of Spotify Pandora and apples beats music with one big difference video for songs that don't have music videos the tracks play over still images youtube says the available music content will be the same for subscribers and nonsubscribers but the ten-dollar monthly fee will get you access to new features like the ability to skip ads on designated music videos to other key features were designed with mobile users in mind one was the ability to take it offline so it can play even when you're in the plane or in a metro or the connectivity is weak or there's no connectivity the second is a lot of times people are playing the music video and also doing other things on the device so we wanted to be able to do that which is what background allows you to do YouTube is seeking feedback on what people want in a page service but that's only part of the equation we have deals signed with majors and indie labels hundreds of them across all over the world but music streaming has hit a sour note with some artists Taylor Swift recently pulled all her songs off of Spotify when she released her latest album in an interview with time she said streaming music quote has been shrinking the numbers of paid album sales streaming is here to stay and it's up to artists and labels to figure out how they can fit into that new future and that's not lost on Taylor Swift or YouTube where latest video has been viewed over 270 million times in San Bruno I'm SI me das cnet.com for CBS News