Apple begins offering half-price $4.99 Apple Music subscriptions for students
Starting today, students enrolled in an eligible college or university will today be able to subscribe to Apple Music at a discounted price, as Apple is offering half off the standard subscription rate for its streaming music service.
The new student pricing began rolling out on Friday in Australia, and is expected to arrive in other markets,?including the U.S., according to TechCrunch. In America, where a single standard monthly subscription to Apple Music costs $9.99, students will be able to pay $4.99 for the same level of service.
Eligible participants must be able to prove that they are a student at a qualified school, and the reduced price is available for up to four years following enrollment. The years do not need to be continuous, so students who take a break from school can regain their eligibility once they return to finish classes.
In addition to the U.S., half-price Apple Music subscriptions are also confirmed to be available in the U.K., Germany, Denmark, Ireland, and New Zealand. In each market, the pricing will be 50 percent off the standard local pricing.
Apple is working with UNiDAYS to verify that students who sign up are actually enrolled in classes.
Last week, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook revealed that Apple Music has 13 million paid subscribers. That was up from 11 million subscribers two months prior.
Apple is expected to revamp Apple Music this year, and unveil the upcoming changes at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Among the changes said to be in the works are a shakeup to the product's user interface, aiming to make it easier to use.
Apple also reportedly plans to expand the Beats 1 radio service, and could potentially add new, live streaming stations to the lineup. And the company is also said to be planning a marketing blitz that will promote the new changes after they are unveiled at WWDC, which is set to kick off on June 13.
The new student pricing began rolling out on Friday in Australia, and is expected to arrive in other markets,?including the U.S., according to TechCrunch. In America, where a single standard monthly subscription to Apple Music costs $9.99, students will be able to pay $4.99 for the same level of service.
Eligible participants must be able to prove that they are a student at a qualified school, and the reduced price is available for up to four years following enrollment. The years do not need to be continuous, so students who take a break from school can regain their eligibility once they return to finish classes.
In addition to the U.S., half-price Apple Music subscriptions are also confirmed to be available in the U.K., Germany, Denmark, Ireland, and New Zealand. In each market, the pricing will be 50 percent off the standard local pricing.
Apple is working with UNiDAYS to verify that students who sign up are actually enrolled in classes.
Last week, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook revealed that Apple Music has 13 million paid subscribers. That was up from 11 million subscribers two months prior.
Apple is expected to revamp Apple Music this year, and unveil the upcoming changes at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Among the changes said to be in the works are a shakeup to the product's user interface, aiming to make it easier to use.
Apple also reportedly plans to expand the Beats 1 radio service, and could potentially add new, live streaming stations to the lineup. And the company is also said to be planning a marketing blitz that will promote the new changes after they are unveiled at WWDC, which is set to kick off on June 13.
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I used to follow all the billboard charts (and in a way still do, but less fervently) and my my there was always trash on every one of them.
The best charts were in the late 1960s and early 1980s, early 1990s not good AT ALL.
There is plenty of good music around. I'm 48 so the music of my youth was music like Price, Madonna and Michael Jackson. Doesn't mean there is nothing comparable these days. I'd say there is even more good songs, but less coming from mass marketers and more from the countless niche creators. The problem is that its hard for those smaller sellers to make a living in a streaming world.
PS: I'll agree thought that the billboard chart the last few months has been pretty bad, the worse in quite a while.
But it's cyclical, a few years back 2012-13, we had folk/Rock at the top of the charts and I love this kind of thing.
Nah, Apple will probably get sued by the government for predatory pricing, or collusion, or something, anything.
From a "genius" perspective, nothing beats the Beatles. Other artists only have fleeting moments of genius in their careers.
The 1982-1986 period was great for music and had many of those genius moments at the same time.
Swift plays the guitar, she always has a guitar on stage and I'm pretty sure she plays the piano and keyboard too (she was on BBC lounge playing the piano on a song I can't remember).. The BBC Live lounge program (and the youtube videos) is a good way to see how artists sound live.
Maybe you're a "bit" biased :-). Swift's songwriting skills are actually pretty good. She's written songs in a pretty wide range of styles, actually broader than Prince. I actually own all Prince's albums from the 1970s to the 1990s. But, I do like Swift too; they're not mutually exclusive.
If your able to sell nearly 200M singles, or albums; it's not merely a fluke... Same with Rihanna, who is the best seller in the last 15 years (just before Swift) (though her last Album (ANTI) is total crap, not sure what happened there!!)
Many of today's top non hip hop artist actually play an instrument. Even in the HipHop world, people like Pharell, Lamarr and many others play instruments.
Being a musicians is tough, you usually don't get there and stay there because you're a slacker.