Spotify Plans to Raise Price of Premium Plan in U.S. to $10.99

I've had Spotify Premium for four years at $9.99.

And it's going up $1.00.

For the enjoyment I get out of it and all the new music I've found, that really doesn't feel like a huge increase, TBH. If they were jumping $5-$10 I might be angry, but one dollar? GTFO.

I expect things to get more expensive over time, just reasonably so.

In 2014 a standard premium plan was $10 for one person, a family plan (6 people) would cost you $15.
Historically not bad to have a single dollar increase over nearly 10 years.
Apple Music is one dollar above, 10.99 for one persion, 15.99 family, so it's a fairly consistent pricing model for the big players anyway.
Apple Music is the one streaming service I pay for and it's because it fits in better with my tech ecosystem than alternatives.
A real damn shame the rest of streaming services can't agree on fair and consistent pricing.
- Agreed.
- I pay $2.20/m for a YouTube Family plan, which includes YouTube Music, via setting up with VPN, none needed for use just billing.
  Turning currency profile
For real. I love Spotify. I've had a paid membership for many years, and it's easily one of the best values for the money. The algorithm knows my musical tastes pretty goddamn well, because my Spotify generated playlists are usually goldmines of stuff I'd never heard before or completely forgot about.
My only problem is how little the artists make off the service... but it's a catch-22 because I've ended up going to concerts and/or buying merch from artists I only knew about BECAUSE of Spotify.
- My only problem is how little the artists make off the service… but it’s a catch-22 because I’ve ended up going to concerts and/or buying merch from artists I only knew about BECAUSE of Spotify.
  I feel you there. I try to support the artists when they come to town too.
I expect things to get cheaper over time as the company learns how to run more efficiently and use new technologies to lower running costs. It never happens, but I always expect it to.
- I'm not sure what country you're living in, but here in America, that's an unreasonable expectation.

I never again want to read the phrase "investor pressure". I'll pay the buck, but fuck shareholders.

Oof, figures. I guess everybody is going to jump on this train. Like they have the mentality of my HS teachers... It's not that much... Sure 8 other teachers also assigned me "not that much", and now it's very much much. A double positively you're getting fucked.

Well, assuming other inflation is pushing prices higher, you'll see it with anything trying to keep "real income" constant. That said, I've never seen the point of using spotify at all so...
- No doubt. What gets me is something another person pointed out. You can get almost any premium streaming service for around that price that offers a lot more content than a single music streaming service.
  They'll probably be the next to jack up their prices though.
  I pay a lot for youtube ad free, but at least I get more than just music with that. For a little more than what I'm paying for that you could subscribe to more than a few movie streaming services.
  I'm paying $20/month for Disney+/Hulu/ESPN ad free for my entire family. I'm paying about that for youtube family plan.
  My yearly wage increase sure as shit isn't coming close to matching inflation, but that won't stop companies from extracting more and more money from me while paying their employees less because "the state of the economy"... And then they make as much or more while we make less, and pay more.

Here's my thing. Still no HiFi when you can get it from Apple or Amazon at no extra charge. I'd have switched already if I wasn't too lazy to recreate my Spotify playlists.

Deezer has HiFi, costs $10.99/mo (or less if you pay yearly), and they provide a tool to port over playlists from Spotify, Tidal, YouTube, and Amazon. I've been using it for a few years and love it. I think there's been maybe 2 songs I had on Spotify that weren't on Deezer initially, but one of them as added a few months ago.
https://www.tunemymusic.com/

Investors are the scum of the earth and nobody can convince me otherwise.

Thank god I only use Spotify for discovery then buy downloads of music for those that I can.

who the fuck is still paying for netflix/youtube/spotify/etc

I stuck with Spotify for years because of the student discount. It was like $5 a month + free Hulu with ads. Got grandfathered into for years until I cancelled it last month.
- Yeah I feel that, I ran out of my student plans long ago so now I sail the seas lol.
  I was happy to pay but as we all know prices continue to rise regardless of content holes/droughts/deserts. Maybe the thing you want is on a streaming service you pay for, maybe it was on there last week but no longer, etc etc.
  Fuck you corpos, you’re taking money out of your own pockets!
At least 3 people are still paying; hope I was able to help.
- Ah, yes… I can finally complete my dastardly plan cue evil laugh
Probably no one, as you can pirate anything Netflix produces, use Freetube or Brave to watch youtube ad-free, and spotify is free with ads.
- No fucking way I'm ever listening to music with ads...
- I would sooner get a tattoo of Ronald Reagan on my ball sack than listen to music with ads. I'm not a barbarian.
I'm stuck in the Network effect. I only use Spotify because Spotify Connect requires premium and all of my friends use Spotify.
Otherwise, I'd be using Deezer or getting all my music locally like I used to.

uBlock origin works really well with spotify on PC