Yes, you read the title right, Spotify raised their prices. Now, why would they do this? How much have the prices risen? Both of those will be answered today.
Before we start though, some people have been living under a rock. If that’s the case, that’s fine, really. So, for the unfamiliar, Spotify is a music platform like Apple music or Amazon music. It has a decent range of songs, it’s like the YouTube of music apps.
The most annoying things about Spotify are their ads, cause, who wants to listen to ads all the time? Nobody? Exactly! The other thing is the shuffle feature that automatically turns on just by using the app for free. You can’t turn it off without paying, at all.
The shuffle feature honestly sucks since it only plays a few of the same songs. Now, let’s get into the questions from earlier, shall we?
French Price Comparison
The current price for Spotify still depends on which plan you get, so, let’s list all of them!
- Individual plan? $13.88 (€12.14)
- Family plan? $24.29 (€21.24)
- Duo plan? $19.67 (€17.20)
- You’re a student? You’re not safe either at $8.04 now.
Now, you may be thinking that, “that’s not too bad…right?” Well, you’d be wrong, especially considering the old prices from before June 2nd. The old prices were so much better.
Individual plans were $13.71 (€11.99), Duo was $18.28 (€15.99), and family plans were $22.86 (€19.99). So, compare these prices to the new ones. It’s nuts, right? Yeah, thought so, cause it is!
If you wanna read more about this and all the nitty-gritty details, you can do so here. Plus, if you read it from there, you don’t have to jump through an infinite number of hoops just to get the data!
Now, let’s talk about WHY Spotify is doing this. Cause, let’s be real, why are they? What’s the motivation behind it?
Why is Spotify doing this?
Well, it’s Frances’ “Streaming tax,” dumb, we know. It seems to only be for music so far. Which, is that good? We don’t know, but it could certainly be worse.
Now that you have a basic understanding of what the hell is going on, go! Go do research! Read into this! It’s interesting and it’s better than having ai summarize every single thing for you!
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