SiriusXM Platinum VIP Tier Now Includes 12 Months of Free Apple Music

[MacRumors]

SiriusXM today announced that customers who subscribe to its Platinum VIP plan can access 12 months of Apple Music for free with their subscriptions, a promotion that applies to both new and existing subscribers.

Priced at $34.99 per month, the Platinum VIP plan offers SiriusXM service in two vehicles along with Apple Music content. SiriusXM provides ad-free music channels based on music genres, artists, decades, and more, along with talk shows, podcasts, sports content, comedy shows, and more than 5000 live concert video and audio recordings.

With the Apple Music promotion, subscribers will have access to more than 90 million Apple Music songs, as well as features like spatial audio, Lossless Audio, time-synced lyrics, and music videos. SiriusXM and Apple are providing a full Apple Music subscription, valued at $9.99 per month.

More information on the offer and the SiriusXM Platinum VIP subscription can be found on the SiriusXM website. Next year, SiriusXM says that it plans to offer a six month Apple Music subscription with other qualifying SiriusXM subscription plans.

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[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Dang! That’s a very good incentive.

 

[I7guy]

I already have two vehicles with SXM, but yeah that’s a great deal.

 

[ghostface147]

That's a good deal, but I don't know how it would work if you already have Apple Music as part of your Apple One subscription.

 

[MacNewbie03]

I wonder if i can convert to this plan? I already have two vehicles and both are on a Platinum plan. One is a one yearly plan. I'll have to call near the end of the term to see if I can get them to change me to this. I think I'll be saving money on this new plan.

 

[uptownnyc]

Seems expensive. You can generally get Sirius for $5/month per vehicle if you call and say you want to cancel.

 

[ChromeAce]

SiriusXM is in free fall. Deals like this only show how poorly managed they are, giving their customers a taste of why they don’t need them anymore in order to temporarily boost sales numbers.

All my interactions with their website and phone customer service have been horrifying, with pricing that changed with the wind and bait and switch tactics.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Seems expensive. You can generally get Sirius for $5/month per vehicle if you call and say you want to cancel.

Yep. I’ve been paying $6.06 with tax per month for about 4 years now. It’s not the premium package, but the select. However, more than sufficient for my needs.

 

[WWP99]

Sirius is desperate for customers. You can always negotiate a better price with them at renewal time. $35/month is crazy.

 

[citysnaps]

I Bluetooth Apple Music from my phone to my car's radio. Good enough.

 

[mrz_V1]

Just canceled my Sirius radio last week, I cant justify something that cost as much as 2-3 video streaming services combined. The service should be $6.99 at most. The mid-tier plan which lacks a lot of the channels is $17.99.. I get that they have good content but so does Netflix.

 

[GIZBUG]

Way too expensive. Like my platinum plan for $80/yr

 

[oneMadRssn]

Seems expensive. You can generally get Sirius for $5/month per vehicle if you call and say you want to cancel.

It's up to like $6-7 after fees and taxes now, but frankly I am struggling to justify even this cost. Each station seems to play the same few dozen songs over and over again. It might as well be just a bunch of playlists.

 

[Theineandonly]

Siriusly? Get it? ?

 

[randyhudson]

This is like the Cheesecake Factory offering you a complimentary Arby's roast beef sandwich.

 

[Ken Linger]

If you are on (or switch to) the Platinum VIP plan, you get 12 months of Apple Music. What happens in year 2? Are they saying "Apple Music is included with this plan" or are they essentially saying "You get a 12-month trial of Apple Music with this plan?"

Updated:
Answering my own question here. According to their site, it's basically an extended trial...

• First 12 months is on us, then $9.99 per month.

 

[adamjackson]

I wanted to add my take on this as someone who has struggled with Sirius' offerings for years and their price structure. Luckily, I buy cars often enough that I generally always have Sirius for free or cheap every time (we have 4 cars currently).

I just purchased for $8 a month one year of Platinum for my truck which I thought was a good deal but I had to pay in full up front.

This addresses a complaint of mine that they don't support multiple vehicles. Most people will get this for $25 or less per month if they call up Sirius and ask. This frustrates me to no end their strategy to charge people purely based on how much of a pain in the a** the customer is on the phone..basically if I call them enough times, I'll get the service for super cheap so paying the least to Sirius ends up being an exercise in how much my time is worth to me. If an hour means nothing, I can get their service for dirt cheap...frustrating and I wish hey lowered prices across the board and didn't give price breaks. It's frustrating.

In addition, their stations have way too much talk. I assume they polled their customers and customers want that but any channel that is in the bottom 150 stations has entirely too much talk and commercials for other stations. They say no commercials..there are for other Sirius offerings. I find that I end up using the higher channels the are more genre specific (like up in the 700s) because then I get pure music but the issue with all stations is that the robot playlist they have only has about 100 songs and then repeats so after about a week, the station will get stale and I'll revisit it in a month to get the new songs that were added.

sirius I use out of convenience but I think Apple Music is superior

I'm confused what Sirius is trying to do here. They have Pandora supported and now they're giving away Apple Music as well. I'm not sure what their strategy is other than "add subscribers at all costs" but I hope it works out for them. I have Apple Premiere so I have Apple Music. I would prefer Sirius gives me access to Pandora.com with my Sirius account instead.

I'd prefer they sell me Platinum for $15 a month then charge me $5 to add a vehicle. This would make my household pricing model so much simpler because I'm never driving more than 1 car at a time...that extra $5 costs them nothing in royalties or licensing costs because if I was a cheap bastard, I would just stream Sirius from my iPhone via CarPlay and circumvent their multi-vehicle pricing entirely.

Proposed Sirius Pricing: $4.99 for first 99 channels and all of the talk and ads, $9.99 to add talk/sports/howard, $15.99 to add Pandora, custom stations and all channels, $5 Additional a month for each extra vehicle, $5 additional to add Pandora.com access for desktop / mobile.

anyway rant over. I'm a Sirius customer but I really wish they'd put their big boy pants on and treat their customers better.

 

[mrmcbee]

Glad to see they're engaging with apple on something, maybe they will work on native HomePod support. I love a couple Sirius channels and it bugs me that I cannot play them natively like I can music from their Pandora app.

 

[gaximus]

"Sirus XM radio, you're probably in a rental car."

 

[GeoStructural]

Seems expensive. You can generally get Sirius for $5/month per vehicle if you call and say you want to cancel.

I despise them, I canceled and they still keep sending me junk and calling me.

 

[txscott]

I struggle to find a use case for Sirius. Apple Music (or Spotify) has all the music and you can listen to that anywhere, stream to your stereo or smart speaker, headphones while running, via bluetooth in any car you are in etc. with a single subscription. Every talker has a pod cast. Terrestrial radio has local and most of those are on iHeart Radio or similar. I can't find anything Sirius offers that is unique. Perhaps more live sports, but radio broadcasts of sports has zero interest or use for me.

 

[BWhaler]

This is like the Cheesecake Factory offering you a complimentary Arby's roast beef sandwich.

I’m not exactly sure what this means, but it’s hysterical.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

I am not sure why some people hang on to Sirius XM, but I left them years ago for their crappy practices and poor sound quality, and ever since Apple Music, I couldn’t imagine going back for any reason whatsoever.

 

[BlendedFrog]

And they still can't be bothered with supporting Apple Watch. What a joke they've become. Only reason I still have it is because a 5 year 'trial' came with my new Jeep.

 

[avatar77]

Mediocre product that plays the same songs on repeat, some unbearable DJs who talk too much (cough Madison), and a crappy customer experience such that I have to call and threaten to cancel every six months for literally the last decade to get their best price.

And now their answer to the existential threat that streaming represents to their business is to bundle...a streaming service?!? Screw this company.