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.
YouTube Music Premium
YouTube's April 2026 price-change announcement, via trade coverage — music.youtube.com returned a browser-compatibility error to our check — read on 22 August 2026.
$11.99 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $11.99/mo — $143.88 a year
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- Yes — ad-supported, no expiry.
- Price read from
- YouTube's April 2026 price-change announcement, via trade coverage — music.youtube.com returned a browser-compatibility error to our check
- Checked
- Vendor
- music.youtube.com
“Not published” means we did not find a renewal price stated by the vendor on the date we checked. It is not a claim that the price changes on renewal, and it is not a claim that it doesn’t.
YouTube Music Premium went from $10.99 to $11.99 a month in 2026, the first change since 2023. Family went from $16.99 to $18.99. That is $143.88 a year for one person.
Keep the two products apart, because the names invite confusion and the gap is large. YouTube Music Premium is the music subscription. YouTube Premium is the one that also strips ads from YouTube itself, and it rose from $13.99 to $15.99 a month — $159.99 if you take its annual plan. The annual option belongs to YouTube Premium, not to the standalone music tier, and we found no yearly prepay for Music Premium.
music.youtube.com returned a browser-compatibility error rather than a price when we checked on 22 August 2026, so these figures come from reporting of YouTube’s announcement. Hence “Not published” in the renewal column.
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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.