Apple Music Student Plan Pricing Increases by 20% in US, UK, EU, Canada, and Other Countries [Updated]

[MacRumors]

Pricing for the Apple Music Student Plan has increased in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

The price changes, first spotted by Michael Burkhardt on Twitter (via 9to5Mac), increase the Apple Music Student Plan from $4.99 to $5.99 per month in the United States and Canada, and from £4.99 to £5.99 in the United Kingdom. The changes cut what was previously a 50 percent discount on the $9.99 and £9.99 monthly cost to just 40 percent.

Archived webpages indicate that the change occurred within the past 48 hours. Last month, Apple increased the price of the Apple Music Student Plan in a large number of countries, including Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Indonesia, Israel, and Kenya. Apple informed affected subscribers via email in these countries, but it seems to have not yet informed customers about the latest price change in the U.S., UK, and Canada.

Update: Price increases have also taken effect in various European countries, where most EU countries have seen a bump from EUR 4.99 to EUR 5.99, Finland has increased from EUR 4.99 to EUR 6.99, Sweden has seen an increase from SEK 49 to SEK 65, Denmark has seen an increase from DKK 49 to DKK 59, and Switzerland has seen an increase from CHF 6.50 to CHF 7.50, for example.

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[jonnysods]

Seems to be the norm these days.

 

[antiprotest]

Good. I don't want to subsidize them too much.

 

[xxray]

This will drive students to Spotify. $1 less per month plus Hulu and Showtime.

 

[contacos]

lets see ...

2,10 EUR / Litre for gas
5 Eur for Sun Flower oil
probably not enough gas come winter
55 Degrees (C) in Seville, Spain next weekend

1 more dollar for Apple Music. Does it even matter anymore
Why don't we throw in an astroid hitting earth next?

My 30th are doing great! 😅

 

[dumastudetto]

Students will understand that paying a tiny amount more for breathtaking quality is worth it.

Spotify is still using heavy lossy compressed music files.

 

[nathan_reilly]

Students will understand that paying a tiny amount more for breathtaking quality is worth it.

Spotify is still using heavy lossy compressed music files.

Most students I know like the social aspect of Spotify vs Apple Music. They're not thinking about compression algorithms.

 

[dumastudetto]

Most students I know like the social aspect of Spotify vs Apple Music. They're not thinking about compression algorithms.

Apple Music has great features like shared playlists and profiles. In many ways, Apple Music better than Spotify for social discovery experiences. Apple Music sounds better, is more social, and is baked right into the overarching iOS/iPadOS/macOS/tvOS/watchOS experience.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

hmm i think in EU ,increasing a subscritption price without letting the user know and agree about it,and without bringing any new advantages...isnt alllowed

at least that is the case for wifi providers

 

[nortonandreev]

They added sorting option in playlists and increased the cost of the service with $1.

 

[ericwn]

This will drive students to Spotify. $1 less per month plus Hulu and Showtime.

I’d bet most subscribers are with Spotify already.

 

[ericwn]

Students will understand that paying a tiny amount more for breathtaking quality is worth it.

Spotify is still using heavy lossy compressed music files.

There is nothing breathtaking either way and the dominant platform is Spotify already, and always has been in the recent past, which tells us all we need to know about compression and its importance in the mass market.

 

[L92]

Most students use BT earphones, where lossless is pointless. Even with wired ones, you need a good one to actually hear something if anything. And Spotify Connect works better for the Apple ecosystem than Apple Music, or Apple Podcast. Considering how deeply integrated they are it's actually quite baffling how Apple devices couldn't pick up Music and Podcast for continuous playback like Spotify does it, which is like magic. I'm using both from time to time. AM ui is nicer, but Spotify is vastly faster (even on i13P). It's also joke that playlist orders for AM only coming in iOS16, so it took them like 10 years to figure it out.

 

[Naraxus]

But ofc they are. Timmy C never met an opportunity to nickle & dime to profit even more he didn't like....

 

[Villarrealadrian]

And what is the reason for this 20% increase?

 

[Dan From Canada]

This will drive students to Spotify. $1 less per month plus Hulu and Showtime.

My two young adults in university prefer Spotify over Apple Music. I think this is the norm for young folk.

 

[Shirasaki]

And what is the reason for this 20% increase?

Simple, keep their profit margin high.
I bet they want a 200% price hike if they can get away with it.

 

[boak]

So same as Spotify in the UK now

 

[theob05]

Over the years, we have learned that the worst thing that can happen to subscriptions is that the price can and will rise as users increase. That's why it's always better to buy and have a thing, not rent it.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Word of warning for anyone thinking of cancelling Apple Music - when I let my subscription expire it completely obliterated my iTunes purchases.

 

[thv]

Students are usually using spotify anyway. I use AM for the design, local files, so on and though everyone discussed spotify playlists I've actually discovered way more new to me music thru apple browsing. but spotify shows what your friends are listening to real time & also apple's tracking is just horrible, even the year in review thing they finally implemented doesn't work properly. the mac app has been fairly glitchy for a while too

 

[rpmurray]

I guess their profits weren't high enough so they're going after the low hanging fruit.

 

[cmcbhi]

Most students' eardrums have been blown out. by loud music already. They couldn't tell the difference between high-end audio and AM radio.

 

[Ateam043]

Word of warning for anyone thinking of cancelling Apple Music - when I let my subscription expire it completely obliterated my iTunes purchases.

In which ways? I can see it wrecking playlists.

 

[davemacdo]

Students will understand that paying a tiny amount more for breathtaking quality is worth it.

Spotify is still using heavy lossy compressed music files.

Music professor here. With very few exceptions, students are not listening on the kind of hardware that would allow for this distinction to be meaningful. Spotify’s 320kbps MP3s are fine.

Also, I will continue using Spotify to teach my courses because of the sharing and collaboration features.

Also, non-Apple using students would resent me asking them to buy Apple things, even though they can use the service without any Apple hardware.

The _one_ thing I can imagine moving me from Spotify for teaching would be something remarkable with music metadata in the rumored Apple Classical Music app/service (or whatever becomes of the Primephonic acquisition). Currently, metadata in both Spotify and Apple Music is hot garbage.