Amazon Music Unlimited to Get Price Hike for Prime Members in May
If you subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited through a Prime membership, get ready to pay a little more. Starting May 5, the music-streaming service will charge individual subscribers $8.99 per month or $89 per year—an increase from $7.99 per month or $79 per year.
The company is also increasing the price for a single-device plan from $3.99 to $4.99 per month.
“We are increasing the price of your Amazon Music Unlimited plan so we can continue to bring you new content and features,” the company told subscribers in a Tuesday email.
The price hike also means Prime members are getting less of a discount on Amazon Music Unlimited. Currently, non-Prime subscribers have to pay $9.99 per month for the music-streaming service, which is also what a Spotify premium subscription costs.
That said, it doesn’t appear Amazon has changed prices for the family plan, which is only available to Prime members. It costs $14.99 per month or $149 per year.
So far, Amazon hasn’t elaborated on the price increase and how it plans to improve the Music Unlimited service. But the announcement arrived two months after the company also raised prices for Amazon Prime from $119 to $139 a year. Amazon justified that price increase by citing rising wages, higher transportation costs, and an expansion of Prime member benefits.
Spotify also raised prices last year, but only for the family plan, citing “macroeconomic factors.”
A Prime membership includes access to Amazon Music Prime, but that service only has 2 million songs versus the 90 million you'll find on Amazon Music Unlimited.
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