Skip to main content

Spotify’s Family Plan just got much better for bigger families

Spotify
Image used with permission by copyright holder
Even though Spotify is currently in the lead in the battle for streaming music supremacy, with more than 30 million paying subscribers and an estimated user base of over 100 million, it doesn’t feel it can afford to let its competition gain any ground. And so the company is closing the gap in one area where Apple Music has managed to stay ahead until now: pricing for families.

While Apple has offered a flat pricing structure for families since the launch of Apple Music last year, Spotify maintained a more complicated pricing scheme that got more expensive as more family members were added to the plan. Now the service’s Family Plan is getting an update that sees it moving to the same flat pricing structure of $15 per month (or the equivalent in local pricing).

The newly updated Family Plan supports up to six family members for that flat price, making it cheaper for nearly everyone, but if you were paying for the plan in order to share with one other person, the price will simply stay the same. As was always the case, the new Family Plan provides each member with their own separate account.

The new Family Plan is rolling out globally right now, except for Canada, where it has yet to launch at all. Updated pricing should automatically be applied to existing accounts, but if you’ve been waiting for cheaper pricing before adding more family members to your account, head to the Family Plan page on the Spotify website for more information or to add members to your plan.

Earlier this month, Spotify’s vice president of sales, Jonathan Forster, said that the company had continued to grow faster than ever since the launch of Apple Music last year, and this new family pricing should help the firm keep that up. That said, rumors have been swirling that Apple is planning a major design overhaul for Apple Music ahead of WWDC, with a planned marketing blitz to match, so it’s certainly wise for Spotify to do everything it can to try and stay ahead.

Editors' Recommendations

Kris Wouk
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Kris Wouk is a tech writer, gadget reviewer, blogger, and whatever it's called when someone makes videos for the web. In his…
Spotify adds music videos for Premium users in a handful of countries
A promo image for music videos on Spotify.

Spotify today announced that it's bringing music videos (ask your parents, kids) to the streaming music service. With some caveats, however.

First is that this is somehow all in "beta," though it's not exactly clear what that means. It's not like music videos are new. Or streaming video is new. It could be that the catalog of music videos is said to be "limited," so maybe Spotify is just testing the waters before it spends more money on more music videos. But Spotify says you'll be able to watch vids from artists like Ed Sheeran, Doja Cat, and Ice Spice, among others. Spotify does say "In this beta launch, we’ll continue to innovate and iterate based on feedback from both users and artists."

Read more
Nvidia just made GeForce Now so much better
Playing games with GeForce Now on a laptop.

Nvidia has just added adaptive refresh rates to GeForce Now, its cloud gaming service. The new tech, dubbed Cloud G-Sync, works on PCs with Nvidia GPUs first and foremost , but also on Macs. These include Macs with Apple Silicon, as well as older models with Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs. On the Windows PC side more broadly, Intel and AMD GPUs will not be supported right now. Nvidia has also made one more change to GeForce Now that makes it a lot easier to try out -- it introduced day passes.

Cloud G-Sync's variable refresh rate (VRR) feature will sync your monitor's refresh rate to match the frame rates you're hitting while gaming with GeForce Now. Nvidia's new cloud solution also uses Reflex to lower latency regardless of frame rates. Enabling VRR in GeForce Now should provide a major boost by reducing screen tearing and stuttering, improving the overall gaming experience on PCs and laptops that normally can't keep up with some titles. To pull this off, Nvidia uses its proprietary RTX 4080 SuperPODs.

Read more
Tidal has rolled all of its premium features into its $11 per month plan
Tidal app for iOS on an iPhone 14 showing now playing screen with Max quality track.

Tidal has announced that it's simplifying its subscription tiers by putting its lossless, hi-res, and spatial audio content into a single, ad-free $11 per month individual plan, starting on April 10.

After that date, Tidal's existing HiFi and HiFi Plus subscription tiers will cease to exist. Previously, if you wanted to access hi-res lossless and spatial audio formats like Dolby Atmos Music and Sony 360 Reality Audio, you needed to pay $20 per month for Tidal HiFi Plus.

Read more