Music is a huge part of daily life and can really change your mood for the better so don’t underestimate its power to lift your spirits. I thought I’d do a quick round-up of the best music streaming services available at the moment so you can decide which one, if any, is right for you.
There are so many music streaming services about at the moment and I’ll be honest, they’re all very similar with no much to choose between them. I’m a fan of Amazon Music Unlimited but Miss Frugal has a student Apple Music account which she got after a three month free trial and she much prefers that to Amazon which just shows that it’s really down to personal preference.
I don’t think there’s much to choose between them when it boils down to what you pay and what you get so I thought I’d just round up the best music streaming services so you can have a look and choose for yourself.
Amazon Prime
Free version available: yes, if you have Amazon Prime
Premium subscription: £7.99 per month if you have Amazon Prime and £9.99 a month if you don’t
Family account: £14.99 per month for up to six people
Student account: £4.99 per month
Prime Music is automatically included with your monthly Amazon Prime subscription at no extra cost and has over 2 million songs which you can stream or download and play offline with no annoying adverts. You also get Amazon video with your Amazon Prime subscription so this one is pretty much a no-brainer if you have an Amazon Prime account anyway to start you off.
Amazon Music Unlimited is Prime Music’s big brother with more than 70 million sings to stream or download. This is what I use right now and I love it – I have all my sings organised into playlists and can easily play them through my car stereo system and through our Amazon Alexa. I listen to music a lot as I’m usually in my car for around an hour and a half every workday.
It’s definitely worth doing the 30 day free trial if you have Amazon Prime because in the long run, this is the one that would work out cheapest for you if you’re paying for Prime anyway.
Apple Music
Free version available: yes, three-month free trial
Premium subscription: £9.99 per month
Family account: £14.99 per month
Student account: £4.99 per month
Apple Music has over 70 million songs ad‑free which you can stream or download and play offline with no annoying adverts and you can listen to your music across all your devices. You can usually get a three month free trial of Amazon music if you open the app on your phone or iPad.
If you’re not a fan of Amazon, or you don’t have Amazon Prime then this might be the one for you to try first because of the longer free trial period.
Spotify
Free version available: yes
Premium subscription: £9.99 per month
Family account: £14.99 per month for up to six people
Duo account: £12.99 per month for up to two people
Student account: £4.99 per month
The Free version of Spotify gives you access to over 50 million songs but there are lots of super annoying adverts so it’s not the best listening experience at all and in my opinion not worth even considering – especially as you can’t download songs to listen to offline so you’re always going to be using your data.
The paid-for version of Spotify whichever of the packages you take gives you access to the same 50 million songs but without the ads and you can download songs to listen to offline. Spotify works well with the Google Nest products and usually has a free trial on for a month. I’ve never used Spotify but I like the different packages that they offer.
Youtube Music
Free version available: yes
Premium subscription: £9.99 per month
Student account: £4.99 per month
YouTube music is similar to Spotify in that there’s a free version packed with ads and no option to download songs to listen to offline. There’s the paid for version at £9.99 a month that removes the ads from your music and allows you to download music to listen to offline and then there’s a third option – for £11.99 a month you can buy YouTube premium which gives you the music options of the £9.99 a month but also removes ads from any videos that you watch on YouTube which can be huge if you watch a lot of Youtube.
This isn’t one that I’ve used myself but according to Google, the YouTube Music app has some pretty impressive search features. Apparently, if you say “zig a zig ah” into the search option, you’ll be treated to some classic Spice Girls or you could ask for “that George Michael song with the models”, and Freedom! will play for you. Impressive, hey?
There’s also a one month free trial here if you want to try the service.
Deezer
Free version available: yes
Premium subscription: £9.99 per month
Family account: £14.99 per month for up to six people
This is the least know music streaming service, to me at least and again, it’s very similar to the other services that come with a free version in that you will be served plenty of ads while you’re listening to music and you can’t download any songs. There are over 56 million songs to choose from and the premium service offers the usual no ads and download capabilities. There’s a three month free trial so you can try it out if you fancy it.
There’s nine month’s worth of free trials up there so it’s worth maybe chopping and changing for a little while to get free services for as long as possible. I just stuck to Amazon because I had some playlists set up and I was just really happy with it so didn’t feel that it was worth changing to another free trial. 😂
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