What music streaming costs a year
Seven services priced per year rather than per month, plus the annual prepay options three of them sell and four of them do not.
Apple Music
Apple Music product page (apple.com/apple-music) — read on 20 August 2026.
$11.99 a month · list price
$11.99 a month · on renewal, per the vendor
- Billed
- $11.99/mo — $143.88 a year
- Renews at
- Same — $11.99/mo
- Free tier
- None. One month free, then it bills.
- Price read from
- Apple Music product page (apple.com/apple-music)
- Checked
- Vendor
- apple.com
Apple Music is $11.99 a month for one person, up from $10.99 after Apple raised prices in July 2026. Family, for up to six people, is $19.99. Student is $6.99 and includes Apple TV at no extra charge.
Twelve months at $11.99 is $143.88 a year.
The interesting part is what is missing. Apple’s own Apple Music page names no annual plan and prints no yearly figure — the page we read on 20 August 2026 lists monthly rates only. An annual option is widely reported to exist inside App Store subscription settings, but a price we cannot read is a price we do not publish, so the renewal column carries the monthly rate and nothing more.
New subscribers were being offered three months for $1.99 when we checked. That is an introductory rate; $11.99 is what follows it.
Where we have written about this
This is a price record, not a review. We do not rate the product, we track what it charges. The method is on how we check prices; mistakes end up in the corrections log.