Amazon Music’s prices are going up for Prime members

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Amazon is increasing the price of its music streaming service. Amazon Prime subscribers will have to pay an extra $8 a month or $90 a year for access to Music Unlimited from May 5th. The price of the single device plan, which lets you listen to the full library but only from a single device, is increasing from $3.99 to $4.99. If you are not a Prime member, the price of Amazon Music is the same.

The price change eliminates the discount that Amazon Prime subscribers get when paying for Amazon Music on top of their regular monthly subscription to Amazon. Instead of getting a $2 a month discount, they now get $1 off compared to non-Prime subscribers. Amazon increased its Prime subscription prices for the first time in four years, from $119 to $139 annually, or $12 99 to $14.99 monthly.

Amazon has a limited catalog of just 2 million songs for its music streaming service, compared to 90 million for its unlimited service. There is no support for hi-res music streams without paying for unlimited.

Amazon Music is reported to be the third-largest music streaming service in the world. According to Midia, Apple Music had 78.6 million subscribers as of Q2 last year, compared to Amazon's 68.1 million. At the end of last year, the company had 180 million subscribers.