It is available in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

[5] The most popular feature of Yandex Music is the smart playlists, which is updated daily for each user and features recently played tracks, similar music to their favorites, and diverse tracks that are based on user's tastes.

Playlist forming became sensitive to the personal musical preferences of the user and his friends on Vkontakte and Facebook.

The sections "New Releases", "Playlists with New Compositions", "Mood and Genres" and "Charts" were added to the main page.

By the time of the launch, the interface was translated into Armenian, the service’s editorial team prepared playlists with Armenian music, and daily updated charts with tracks popular in Armenia appeared on the main page.

[17] In 2022, during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a number of foreign copyright holders ceased cooperation with Yandex Music, thereby users lost access to some foreign tracks, while the service suffered record losses.