But two albums/15 songs a month? That’s going to take you an awful long time to get a decent library.
Even just TS for your daughters will take a good few months. They won’t stand for that!
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Agreed - the value is great if you use it enough.
I’d like to see spatial/Atmos/immersive though, come on Spotify - launch it!
I imagine it’ll come. They’ll increase everyone’s price. Include it.
Then offer a lower tier without it and no one will downgrade
Especially with Apple Music offering it for an included perk. The lossless & 24bit (not whole selection) for the included price adds value. I wish apples music discovery was a bit better though. Spotify had that nailed, that and social playlists.
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It’s probably worth though having a bit of a ‘survey’ of all the different music streaming platforms and check how much they cost now and what features and extras they include.
Off the top of my head:
- Spotify : £11.99 pm
- Apple Music : £10.99 pm
- Amazon Music : £9.99 pm
- Youtube Music : £10.99 pm
- Tidal : £10.99 pm
Any others? Pandora? Soundcloud?
Although, now that Spotify is putting it’s prices up, I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of them all bump it up a bit as well.
Apple, Amazon and Youtube also include their music subscription service in their service bundles (although Amazon Music is not included in Amazon Prime - it’s slightly discounted for Prime Members and Prime does include a ‘budget’ music service Amazon Prime Music)
Once again - I’ll stare this …
12 months Spotify Premium for £99…
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Shame they don’t do it for Spotify Family subs
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Yeah, I’d be doing an up-front 12-month plan if they did.
Still, at £20 a month, we get our money’s worth.
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It’s more cost effective for anyone on a Duo plan too, to split to two single gift card plans.
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I do too - I did try youtube Music, but half of my imported music was not available, so I didn’t transfer over
Issue is, I have 3 people, so it wouldn’t work, but 4 people would
May just see if anyone will go down to individual, each can get their own gift card
The family plan will alway be cheaper for more than 2 people 
Until Spotify start enforcing family account sharing not being in the same household like Netflix/Disney did/do with password sharing.
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I use Deezer Premium and it only costs me just over a fiver (206.9 TL) for the whole year as I managed to sign up to a deal using a VPN and onto second year now and it’s not perfect but does the job
According the MSE article above, Amazon is also £10.99, same as all the others.
£9.99 is the price if you also pay for prime?
Ah yeah - I just went straight to the Amazon Music website and saw the price on there. But it was giving me the discounted Prime Members price automatically as well.
£9.99 for Prime Members, £10.99 for others.
Has anyone got a list of the ‘extras’ each one has though? So, things like which service offers higher quality audio and at which price level? Which ones include ‘premium’ (no ads) podcasts? Do any offer audiobooks (not sure if any do?)
Qobuz £10.83 (paid annually) or £12.99 (paid monthly / month
I think it’s all lossless. Never used their streaming service but have bought lots of music from them.
I’ve had many free trials with Spotify, Apple, YouTube Music and Amazon Music over the years and the only one I would avoid is Amazon. Android app was the worst I’ve ever used. Was slow, unresponsive at times, often look 30 seconds for music to start, and crashed a lot.
I’m currently a student (though not for much longer) so I think the only difference in price is YouTube Music being 50p cheaper. After my Apple Music trial ends, I will probably go back to YouTube Music. I found the music discovery really good and found quite a lot of new singers I didn’t know about before. I can tell the difference in sound quality with Apple Music (Apple is better) but I just don’t really care. As long as it sounds good, that’s enough for me.
Happy Cake Slice Day 
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Used to love Tidal, such an elegant polished UI, but the music choice, although good was infuriating, often 5 versions of the same album! I like to listen to complete albums, not into playlists at all, so Tidal was kind of good in that respect, along with the higher bitrates. Now it seems they are all at it with better bitrates on streaming - even Apple Music has lossless & Dolby Atmos, so Apple Music it is.
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Tidal now do lossless at the same price as their HIFI subscription. Lossless is only worth using if you’re using headphones or speakers which are plugged in. Bluetooth audio is compressed, so won’t get the full benefit.