International YouTube Premium price increase underway in these countries
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> Update on the price of the YouTube Music Premium single tariff. Hi, thank you for joining and choosing to become a member. YouTube Music Premium offers entertainment without interruptions - with more than 100 million songs and other content. In order to continue offering you premium services and features, we're raising the price of the YouTube Music Premium plan to €10.99 per month. We made the decision to increase the price after careful consideration. It will allow us to continue to improve Music Premium membership and properly support the artists whose music you listen to. As a valued member, you currently pay less for Music Premium than new subscribers. As a thank you for your loyalty, you will receive at least three additional months at the current price before the price increase for your plan goes into effect. The price won't increase until after your April billing date. But don't worry, we'll notify you again at least 30 days before the new price goes into effect. We would be happy if you continue to be a member. You can cancel your membership at any time here. Thank you for choosing YouTube Music Premium. Best regards The YouTube Music Team
We currently pay 16.99 for Apple Music and that's already too much. At some point, it's going to become cheaper to buy a new CD each month and rip it to MP3. We don't exactly listen to a huge variety of music.
Apple Music: 204 euros a year.
Average cost for a CD/album release - 16.99
12 CDs a year. We've been on the Apple Music plan for 4 years now. The number of CDs we could have purchased and legally owned by now is >= 48 albums (or more if we buy them on discount).
That's ~12.5 tracks per album on average which figures out to about 600 songs. I'm pretty sure we listen to less than that, so Apple is definitely making out like a robber here.