After we launched our subscription service a decade in the past, we reasoned {that a} greenback a month was a pleasant spherical quantity that made sense for customers and likewise offered us with sufficient to offset the lack of advert income from subscribers. Sadly inflation has not stayed the identical, and $12 in 2015 is extra like $16 in the present day.
In January 2025 we plan to extend the subscription price to $16 a yr to maintain up with the rising prices of [gesturing broadly at everything]. No person likes the price of companies to go up, however we have not raised costs within the near-decade since we launched our subscription service, and we hope that this is sensible to our longtime customers.
We took a take a look at loads of different companies that provide an ad-free model and really feel as if our upcoming annual price ticket of $16 continues to be decrease than most ad-free variations of on-line websites. Hopefully that is manageable for our energy customers and people who actually need to assist this longstanding establishment. If $16 is an excessive amount of for you, we’ll clearly proceed to supply AllMusic without spending a dime to those that do not thoughts the commercials on the web page.
That mentioned, you may nonetheless subscribe now for $12 and seize that lower cost for an extra yr (or extra), even when your subscription is not near expiring but.
If you have not supported AllMusic with a subscription up to now, we encourage you to subscribe now. The positioning runs a ton quicker and the show of data is entrance and heart. Once more, due to those that assist the positioning and assist to cowl the prices of the editorial employees, the infrastructure, and the crew who hold the entire thing working.