Amazon Music now costs $9 per month for Prime members.

Amazon Music lets users stream millions of songs and albums, download tracks for offline playback, and create playlists — all that good stuff we expect. It's also integrated with the Echo ecosystem, and compared to competitor Spotify, it has some distinct advantages: a wider variety of subscription plan options, HD support, and it's more affordable. Unfortunately, the latter there is now changing, as Amazon Music Unlimited starts warning users about a USD1 bump in its monthly subscription price.

The price for Amazon Music Unlimited is going up for Prime members from about USD8 to USD9 per month. For those with "Single Device" subscriptions, the price will rise from USD4 to USD5. If you don't have Prime, things are staying at USD10. While none of that's a huge change, it's definitely slightly less of a bargain now — sure, it's still less expensive than Spotify, but only just.

This comes after Amazon bumped the yearly membership fee for Prime from USD119 to USD139. The online retail giant has attempted to justify this by citing more benefits for Prime members and the usual costs of running a massive business — transportation and employee compensation.

It will be interesting to see how this change affects competition with Spotify and Apple. And while it's unclear what the long-term effects will be in general, it wouldn't be that surprising if Amazon Music's new pricing drove new customers to the competition.

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