I don't use YouTube Music. My family doesn't either, and nor will they. 16.99 was already steep for an individual plan, and 24.99 is too much for a family plan.

I don't use YouTube Music. My family doesn't either, and nor will they. 16.99 was already steep for an individual plan, and 24.99 is too much for a family plan. We currently pay 16.99 for Apple Music and that's already too much. At some point, it's going to become cheaper to buy a new CD each month and rip it to MP3. We don't exactly listen to a huge variety of music. Apple Music: 204 euros a year. Average cost for a CD/album release - 16.99 12 CDs a year. We've been on the Apple Music plan for 4 years now. The number of CDs we could have purchased and legally owned by now is >= 48 albums (or more if we buy them on discount). That's ~12.5 tracks per album on average which figures out to about 600 songs. I'm pretty sure we listen to less than that, so Apple is definitely making out like a robber here.