Amazon is tightening the purse strings once more, elevating costs for Music Limitless subscriptions. This newest enhance impacts Prime members and household plan customers, as initially noticed by The Hollywood Reporter. The Amazon Music Limitless Particular person Plan for Prime members goes up from $9 to $10 per thirty days, or $89 to $99 per yr. The Amazon Music Limitless Household Plan is taking pictures up from $16 to $17 per thirty days, or $159 to $169 per yr.
These charges start instantly for brand new subscribers, however pre-existing clients have a grace interval till September 19 earlier than they kick in. As for the why, Amazon magnanimously said that the worth hikes will assist carry “much more content material and options.” Aw, shucks. You shouldn’t have.
In fact, this isn’t the primary time Amazon has raised Music Limitless costs this yr. Again in January, the prices went up for college students and non-Prime subscribers, and final yr Prime members received one more enhance. So, mainly Prime members noticed costs jettison from $eight per thirty days to $10 per thirty days in simply over a yr. That’s plenty of new content material and options.
Amazon isn’t the one streamer taking further dips into our financial institution accounts. Nearly each identified streaming service has been elevating costs this previous yr. YouTube Premium went up type $12 to $14 per thirty days, Tidal received a rise, Apple Music and Apple TV+ skilled value hikes, Spotify shot up from $10 to $11 per thirty days and that’s only the start. Different streaming providers like Peacock, Paramount+, Hulu and Max all raised their costs, seemingly so as to add these new content material and options everybody’s been speaking about.
In associated information, Amazon Music Limitless pays artists round $5,000 per million streams, which is in keeping with Apple Music and Spotify. In an ideal world, a few of that value hike cash would go to the individuals that truly make the stuff that populate these platforms. This isn’t an ideal world.
