Spotify introduces a Premium Platinum plan with lossless access in five markets

Spotify is shaking up its premium offering and introducing caller tiers called Premium Lite, Premium Standard, and Premium Platinum successful 5 markets, including India, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.

Prior to this change, successful markets similar India, Spotify offered Premium Standard, Duo (for 2 people), and Family plans for six people, with features similar ad-free listening, offline support, and high-quality audio. The caller Premium tiers volition connection these features successful antithetic configurations, based connected the plan.

For instance, the Premium Lite program priced astatine ₹139 per period ($1.57) volition get ad-free listening and 160kbps audio quality. The Premium Standard plan, priced astatine ₹199 per month($2.25), has offline enactment and 320kbps audio quality. The astir costly Premium Platinum program astatine ₹299 ($3.37) per period volition springiness users entree to the recently launched Lossless tier, on with 2 different seats that tin stock the account.

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The Platinum program besides gives users entree to Spotify’s AI DJ feature that provides commentary portion playing songs and lets you marque requests. And it offers entree to the audio platform’s AI-powered playlist instauration tool.

In September, Spotify announced integration with AI bundle similar rekordbox, Serato, and djay, to import users’ libraries to make sets and mixes. The Platinum tier volition let users to entree this integration, arsenic well.

Notably, these features person existed successful different markets specified arsenic North America and Europe for immoderate time. But the 5 countries wherever Spotify is launching these caller premium tiers are gaining entree to immoderate of these features for the archetypal time.

Multiple reports implicit the past fewer years person hinted astatine the institution introducing a “super premium” program with entree to the lossless tier. While astatine the moment, this program exists lone for prime markets, the institution could widen it globally to each markets, putting lossless into the highest tier. (At the moment, each Premium users successful much than 50 countries tin acquisition tracks astatine 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC quality.)

The institution said that if users person an existing account, their subscription volition transportation over. However, caller subscribers won’t beryllium capable to wage for the aged Duo oregon the Family program and volition person to take 1 of the caller plans instead.

For caller subscribers successful India, Spotify is expanding the subscription prices portion reducing immoderate of the benefits users got successful the erstwhile Premium plan. The Standard idiosyncratic program presently costs ₹139 ($1.57) per month, which is the terms of the caller Lite plan. The Family program costs ₹229 ($2.58) per period with inclusion for six members. Account sharing is lone imaginable with the caller Platinum program that costs ₹299 ($3.37) and allows for the inclusion of 3 users. Users who mightiness not attraction astir lossless streaming oregon AI features won’t person immoderate option.

The institution has made changes to its pricing plans successful other markets as well. In the past 2 years, it has bumped the U.S. pricing from $9.99 to $11.99 per month crossed two $1 jumps.