Beats Music had 110K subscribers in March with impressive free-to-paid conversion

By AppleInsider Staff

Just 0.17 percent of the 183 million tracks spun on Beats Music in March were attributed to non-paying customers, purportedly leaked data indicates, suggesting that the service is converting trial users to paid subscribers at an impressive clip.

The figures were revealed in a March 2014 royalty calculation document discovered by music industry website The Trichordist and first noticed by Business Insider. According to the document, "Nonsubscription/ad-supported" plays totaled 312,139 in the period compared to 182,366,328 for the "Standalone Portable Subscription Service."