Apple Music expected to cost Rs. 120 per Month in India, Family Plan Rs. 180

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Users in India can expect Apple Music to cost Rs. 120 per month. A family plan which covers six accounts is available for just Rs. 180 - after a 3 month free trial of the service. This was confirmed by users of the iOS 9 Beta, who got a look at the Apple Music application, with the Indian Rupee prices filled in. Although Apple had not confirmed whether India was one of the 100 countries included in the launch lineup for Apple Music on June 30, the fact that the iOS 9 beta version of Apple Music includes India prices shows that it is likely to be part of the initial launch.

At the Apple Music launch at WWDC, only the US price of the service was revealed at $9.99 (approximately Rs. 640), and the family plan of $14.99 (approximately Rs. 958) . In contrast, the India pricing is just about $2 for an individual connection, and $3 for a family plan.

For your subscription, you'll get to listen to music from iTunes (though there are still some exceptions), play music from Apple's music social network Connect, listen to the free Beats 1 radio station and all other Apple music stations, and have unlimited skips on any of these stations, along with unlimited music playback, and offline listening.

The screenshots above show how you log into Apple Music, though Twitter user @Jayesh, whose screenshots these are, writes that Apple Music seems to be only a popup, and only shows his music from iTunes Match, for now.

The WWDC announcement had stated that the local price for other countries would be announced closer to launch, so the fact that local pricing has been set for India suggests that it will launch soon. Of course, with the wide disparity between US and India prices, there remains the possibility these are only placeholder prices, and may be revised ahead of launch. However, Apple does seem to be trying to match its competitors in India.

While Apple Music's biggest competition is Spotify, the service is not available in India. Another competitor, Rdio Music launched in India in January and also charges Rs. 120 (precisely Rs. 119) per month, and a Rs. 180 (precisely Rs. 178.50) family pack. There are also plenty of Indian services that offer similar features, though these tend to offer a greater variety of Indian music, and relatively fewer International tracks.

A Gaana+ subscription is Rs. 99 per month, and Rs. 199 per year, though the annual plan does not support offline listening. Wynk, by Airtel, is available at Rs. 99 per month on Android, and Rs. 120 on iOS; Airtel users can get Wynk for Rs. 29 and Rs. 60 respectively. Saavn is another popular streaming app in India, and Saavn Pro costs $3.99 per month in the US, and Rs. 220 per month in India. A Saavn Pro Lite subscription (available only in India) costs Rs. 110 per month, but limits your cache of offline music to 1GB.

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Really looking forward to the Apple's pricing...

 

[thirumalkumaran]

scrap all of them...
bring me spotify at this price....119INR

I wont even remember Apple music...

(I was spending 10GBP/month in UK for spotify premium... still miss it here)

 

[raksrules]

I have never paid for music streaming but here since we don't have a local desi radio station, I have downloaded 2 apps namely, "Desi Radio" and "Tambura" and stream radio channels from them. Offcourse you cannot select a song, it is what they play, but if one station doesn't interest you then you can switch to another, works well with car controls for me as well (changing channels).
I have 2.5 GB data per month is which I consume hardly 500-800 MB so we have started to use this for longer trips and such.

Will try the free trial of apple music if it is going to available on iOS 7 or probably won't be available.