{"id":11679,"date":"2026-07-21T20:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=11679"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:59:53","slug":"apple-music-subscription-prices-rise-due-to-higher-licensing-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=11679","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music subscription prices rise due to higher licensing costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apple-store-beijing-china.jpg\" \/>     <\/p>\n<p>The Bear Traps Report founder Larry McDonald weighs in on Big Tech earnings on Mornings with Maria.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is raising prices on Apple Music subscriptions as well as certain Apple One plans as the company faces higher licensing costs.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant last week hiked prices for Apple Music plans across subscription tiers. Individual plans will rise by $1 a month to $11.99, while student plans will increase by the same amount to $6.99 a month.<\/p>\n<p>Prices for the Apple Music family plan are also rising by $3 per month to a new monthly rate of $19.99.<\/p>\n<p>The company also hiked prices for some tiers of Apple One \u2013 the company&#8217;s bundle that allows consumers to subscribe simultaneously to Apple TV, Music, iCloud+, Arcade, Fitness+ and News+ or the first four services.<\/p>\n<p>APPLE RAISES IPAD AND MACBOOK PRICES AS MEMORY CHIP COSTS SURGE<\/p>\n<p>Apple raised prices on Apple Music plans as well as some Apple One packages. (CFOTO\/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Prices for the Apple One family tier are set to rise by $2 to a new total of $27.95 per month. Family plans may be shared with up to five people and have up to 200 gigabytes of iCloud storage, though they don&#8217;t include News+ or Fitness+ in the package.<\/p>\n<p>The individual Apple One subscription, which includes the same four services but with 50 gigabytes of iCloud storage, is unchanged at $19.95 a month.<\/p>\n<p>Apple One&#8217;s Premier package, which includes all six of the company&#8217;s subscription services with up to 2 terabytes of storage and may be shared among five people, will rise in price by $2 to $39.95 per month.<\/p>\n<p>APPLE BRIEFLY OVERTAKES NVIDIA AS WORLD&#8217;S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY AMID AI INVESTMENT DOUBTS<\/p>\n<p>Ticker Security Last Change Change % AAPL APPLE INC. 327.74 +1.15<br \/>\n        +0.35%<\/p>\n<p>The price increases apply to consumers in the U.S. as well as other countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The moves weren&#8217;t announced by Apple, which adjusted the prices for the various subscriptions and tiers on its website on Friday. Apple told 9to5Mac, &#8220;As a result of rising licensing costs, Apple Music is increasing its subscription price beginning today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FOX Business reached out to Apple for comment.<\/p>\n<p>APPLE HIT WITH LAWSUIT CLAIMING ICLOUD+ PRIVACY TOOL COULD EXPOSE USERS&#8217; REAL EMAILS TO WEBSITES<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s subscription price hikes follow higher iPad and MacBook prices. (Apple)<\/p>\n<p>In late June, Apple announced price hikes for its iPad tablets and MacBook laptops amid rising memory chip costs.<\/p>\n<p>The company raised the price of the MacBook Air by $200 to a new total of $1,299, while the budget Neo laptop price rose from $599 to $699. The price of a MacBook Pro with 1 terabyte of storage rose $300 to $1,999, while the iPad Air with 128 gigabytes of storage rose from $599 to $749.<\/p>\n<p>GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/p>\n<p>Apple said at the time that it has &#8220;never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,&#8221; adding that it had &#8220;shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>#Apple #Music #subscription #prices #rise #due #higher #licensing #costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bear Traps Report founder Larry McDonald weighs in on Big Tech earnings on Mornings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1819,1364,2268,1413,8821,4511,420,70,906],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}