Adjusting Our Spotify Premium Prices — Spotify
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First price rise since 2011.

In the US, the new prices are:

Premium Individual - $10.99 Premium Duo - $14.99 Premium Family - $16.99 Premium Student - $5.99

The following countries will see price rises:

Andorra, Albania, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Thailand, Türkiye/Turkey, United States, Kosovo.

  • Albinoss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    1 year ago

    This is exactly it. It seems like every service is raising prices with no noticeable improvement to the service itself. Hell, this would be easier to swallow if Spotify was going to pay artists more. There doesn’t seem to be any benefit to anyone other than Spotify’s bottom line, which I assure you, is doing just fine.

    • varoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Shrinkflation. Make a product or service smaller or worse and charge more for it. Been happening for years now across different industries, product types, and service types.

    • pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.oneEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      You do realize that providing their service also costs them money? Operational costs aren’t constant either and grow with inflation as everything else does and considering the last price increase this is a reasonable increase to cocer their increased costs.