#TIDAL FAMILY PLAN DISCOUNT PLUS#

The Apple service launched last month as a revamp of Beats Music and iTunes Radio offers a plan that lets up to six total people join one $15-a-month account. That graduated pricing format is comparable to Spotify.īut if your 'family' is bigger than just two people, the costs of Tidal's plan start to stack up compared with Apple Music.

The same structure applies to the service's 'HiFi' tier, which has higher-quality audio: Instead of the regular $20 rate for a single subscriber, adding additional members to one account racks up $10 more each. On Tidal's $10-a-month standard tier, two people pay $15 per month under the family plan, three people would pay $20, and so forth, up to five people total.

#TIDAL FAMILY PLAN DISCOUNT PLUS#

But all music services are constrained by what rights holders like the music labels will allow. Besides, it offers special discounts for a family, students and militaries - Family Plan (HiFi 14.99/month & HiFi Plus 29.99/month), Student Plan (HiFi. So in the last year and a half, services have begun to offer different pricing levels granting varying levels of listening privilege and perks. Despite the attention around artists like Taylor Swift pulling songs off particular services and hype about sound quality, subscriber trends at these services indicate consumers tend not to make their purchase decisions based on catalog or audio quality. The Tidal plan underscores one of the few areas where subscription music services have a little wiggle room to differentiate themselves. But the costs stack up quickly compared with Apple Music's $15-a-month offer that lets the whole gang join. That matches the plan offered by Spotify, which is the leader in subscription music globally with more than 20 million paying members. Tidal said it would cut the price 50 percent for each person added to a single account.

Tidal family plan discount