©Tada Images/ Apple Music vs Amazon Music: What’s the Difference? $9.99 per month, free for Prime members (limited music library with no ads)Īssorted music streaming apps – Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora, and Audiomack – are seen on an iPhone. ©nikkimeel/ Apple Music vs Amazon Music: Side-by-Side Comparison Apple Music is very close to its competition for music streaming services, with a quickly growing subscriber base. If you are still trying to decide which platform is right for you, this detailed comparison might help. While Amazon Music has been around much longer, Apple Music has steadily gained in popularity since it was launched. The platforms share a number of similarities and differences. While there are very many similarities, Apple Music is said to edge out Amazon Music on music quality.Īpple Music and Amazon Music are two of the most popular music streaming services.Apple Music does not offer a free option Amazon Music does.The costs of the two options are very much in line with one another.
However, Prime members listening on Amazon Music (who don’t subscribe to an unlimited plan) are now mostly limited to shuffle-play mode, based on artist, album or playlist, whereas previously the 2 million songs were available to stream on-demand. Meanwhile, last fall Amazon Music increased the number of songs available as part of Prime from 2 million previously to its full catalog of 100 million tracks and added hundreds of thousands of podcast episodes ad-free, including the entire slate of Wondery’s shows. Spotify chief Daniel Ek has said the company also is considering a price increase in the U.S., where it still charges $9.99 per month for an individual plan.
The latest price increase by Amazon Music comes after Apple in October 2022 raised the price of Apple Music for the first time, increasing from $9.99 to $10.99 per month for the individual plan (and increasing the price of the family plan with up to six accounts from $14.99 to $16.99 per month). In May 2022, the company raised the price of the Amazon Music Unlimited individual plan for Prime members from $7.99 to $8.99 per month (or from $79 to $89 per year). That came after Amazon raised the price of Prime memberships in the U.S. in early 2022 for the first time in nearly four years, hiking the annual fee for the program 17%, from $119 to $139.
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