Prime Music (free to Prime members (opens in new tab)) is a neat membership feature, but Music Unlimited ($8.99 per month to Prime members, or $10.99 per month without membership) provides additional ways to control what you're listening to. The free upgrade to Amazon Music HD is available today in Canada, US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.Following the recent price hike for Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited is following suit and increased the monthly fee to access it's CD-quality and hi-res audio content from $9.99 to $10.99. Existing subscribers to Amazon Music HD will no longer see an extra charge on their next billing cycle.įor Prime subscribers, it’s $7.99 CAD/month for Amazon Music Unlimited and for non-Prime it’s $9.99 CAD per month. All music fans should have access to this quality of music, and now they do!”Īmazon Music HD offers over 70 million lossless, High Definition (HD) songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of 44.1kHz (CD quality).Īmazon previously charged $5 to upgrade to Amazon Music HD, but now this tier has been unlocked for free. “When we first launched Amazon Music HD, our goal was to lead the industry by enabling music fans around the world to stream the best quality recording, the way artists intended their music to be heard,” said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music, in a statement. “We’re thrilled now to make Amazon Music HD available to everyone at no extra cost. Amazon also has a growing number of tracks in 3D Audio, plus songs in Dolby Atmos ( for Echo Studio) and Sony 360RA (for Sony’s RA5000 and RA3000 speakers). Subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited, the company’s paid streaming music service, can now get the highest quality streaming tier, Amazon Music HD, for free.Īmazon Music HD was launched back in 2019, currently available for over 70 million tracks, plus over 7 million songs in Ultra HD. After Apple announced the upcoming launch of Lossless Audio for Apple Music next month at no extra cost, Amazon on Monday morning made a similar announcement of their own.
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