If you’re an audiophile who is open to the idea of streaming, your options for better quality music have risen considerably in recent years. But what other music streaming services are finally catching onto, Qobuz has been doing from the get go – and maybe that longevity in the market, with a little bit of self-improvement along the way, is finally starting to pay off.
Originally launched in 2007, Qobuz has actually been around as long as Spotify, though it really only stretched its legs outside of its home country of France in 2013 – arriving on European shores with its high-res streams a few years before Tidal even existed. However, it wasn’t until 2019 before Qobuz launched in the US, with expansion efforts more recently seeing it move into Australia and New Zealand in 2021 and Canada in 2023.
