(Telecompaper) Apple said it has 15 million users on its streaming-music service launched this summer. Speaking at the WSJDLive conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company had 6.5 million paying customers for Apple Music and 8.5 million customers on free, three-month trials. After the trial period, users pay USD 9.99 a month for individual subscriptions or USD 14.99 for families. The first batch of customers came off the trial period at the end of September. In August, Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue, who is overseeing the roll-out of Apple Music, said it had 11 million people on the trial version of the service. By comparison, Spotify has 75 million active users and 20 million paying subscribers. Cook also said that the new version of Apple TV will start shipping at the end of next week. The company will start accepting orders for its new video box on 26 October.