About free radio

Find stations curated by our team of experts and music personalized for you based on what you listen to.

Select an available song to start a radio station with similar music.

Select an available song to start a radio station with similar music.

Find your recent radio stations and new stations based on your favorite genre, activity, mood, or decade.

When you're listening to free radio stations, you can skip up to 6 songs per hour.

When you're nearing your skip limit, you'll see a notification with the option to subscribe to Google Play Music. If you choose to subscribe, you'll get unlimited skips and ad-free access to over 30 million songs.

You may see video ads when you start new radio stations and banner ads across the bottom of your screen. These ads can't be closed, but you can let us know if you see an inappropriate ad.

With free radio, there will be some limitations to which songs you can play. For example, if you give a thumbs up rating to music from a free radio station, it will be grayed out in your Thumbs up playlist. You'll need to purchase the song or subscribe to Google Play Music to play this music in your Thumbs up playlist.

You'll only see uploaded or purchased music in your queue. When you're streaming free radio stations, you'll only see the song currently playing in your queue.