bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-15/spotify-weighs-6-premium-for-added-features-access-to-tickets

Spotify Technology SA is looking to charge as much as $5.99 a month on top of existing subscriptions for a new super-fan streaming service that will include higher-quality audio, remixing tools and access to concert tickets, people familiar with the matter said.

The company hopes to roll out the Music Pro tier later this year, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are confidential. The pricing and timeline aren’t set because Spotify is still working through the details and doesn’t have rights from all of the major music companies, they said. Prices for Music Pro will vary by geography, with the cost lower in less-developed markets.

Subscribers will be able to mix together songs from different artists. Some of those features will utilize artificial intelligence, the people said. Spotify is also testing various ways to sell concert tickets, such as giving fans access to presales or better seats. It has held preliminary talks with major promoters and ticket sellers but has yet to finalize its plans.

The company is developing Music Pro at the same time it has raised prices for existing subscriptions and created a new offering built around audiobooks. Its current US plans range from $5 a month for students to $20 a month for families.
Major music companies are pushing streaming services to charge more for different features as growth in major markets like the US slows. US recorded music sales grew 4% in the first half of last year, the slowest pace in almost a decade.

Apple Music and Amazon Music Unlimited already offer higher-quality audio, and services like Tidal and SoundCloud offer some remixing tools. Yet Spotify is the biggest audio service by a wide margin, with 675 million users and more than 250 million paying subscribers.
Spotify plans to roll out the plan in phases, adding tools and features over time, the people said. It will test many options over the course of this year.

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but i aint paying $6 more than AM for lossless sorry hoss

You don’t fw the AI remixes?

ai remixes is insane

i hope the family whose plan I've been leeching from for 5 years upgrades

Paying for music when you can just get them for free

………..what are we doin

Terrible

using spotify in 2025

Paying extra for something Apple already offers, remixes no one wants and concert ticket presale you can get already from just searching on Twitter, having an American Express card or having a cell phone provider

LOL

where do i sign up this is great

Meanwhile Lossless is included with Apple Music at no extra charge

Apple W

Nice now I can finally get early access to those Luther Vandross concerts Spotify is always telling me about

i normally dont wish ill on noone but ill be happy when daniel ek dies

Man I’m going back to limewire

Nah

Spotify seems like a terrible company ngl. Between this and that CarPlay thing like I have to question whether the people at the top even listen to music

AI remixes 🤢

AI remixes

why does it feel like most of these people at top of these companies are taking bad decisions for their products on purpose?

i'm not capping for Spotify but there is a reason why Apple & Amazon can charge less & give a higher royalty rate than Spotify

Spotify isn't backed up by other streams of income like those two. Apple & Amazon are trillion dollar companies who offer music streaming services as an extra service. e.g. Apple has basically been a phone company for almost 2 decades now, music has been a side business for them

i hear you though, as an end consumer
choose which option best suits you, all of these companies are scum tbh

I really can't imagine Daniel Ek actually listening to music, he probably though 'we can become to music sales, what Amazon is to books '

Ek hates music

if people stop buying movie tickets, Blu-Rays or netflix subscriptions etc. will there still be as many movies coming out?

if nobody pays for music, will artists that can't sell out tours continue to release much new music?

enshittification