Spotify is getting more affordable for families.
The music-streaming service on Monday rolled out an upgraded Family Plan that lets up to six family members take advantage of the full Spotify Premium offering for $14.99 a month. Previously, you could add up to five people to a Family Plan, and pricing was more confusing.
Under the old Family Plan, the primary account holder had to pay the standard $10 a month for Spotify Premium, but could buy additional subscriptions for up to four family members at 50 percent off, or $4.99 for each additional account.
Now, pricing is much simpler. Those on a Family Plan will get one bill every month to cover the whole family, and pricing is a flat $14.99 a month, regardless of whether you have two or six people on your Family Plan. So the more people you add, the better the deal.
With the Family Plan, each person gets their own, unique Premium account. If everyone already has Spotify, they'll keep their saved music, playlists, and recommendations.
Rest assured that each user on a Family Plan will get the regular version of Spotify Premium with features like ad-free listening and offline tracks, not some "light," dumbed-down version.
The new Family Plan comes after hundreds of Spotify account credentials were recently posted to the Web in a possible security breach. Emails, usernames, passwords, account types, and other details specific to Spotify recently appeared online, though the company denied it was hacked. "User records are secure," the streaming music service told PCMag.