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Besides furthering your learning, getting an education comes with perks — including access to many bundles and discounts. No matter if you’re starting college, going back to school or are continuing your education, some streaming services offer discounted prices on their subscription packages for students. Instead of having to snag someone else’s password, you can score major discounts on streaming platforms that’ll get you access to streamer-exclusive content such as Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building and Disney+’s Agatha All Along.

Do Any Streaming Services Have a Student Discount?

You can take advantage of slashed subscription prices on streaming platforms including Hulu, Peacock and Prime Video. As an added bonus, most of the streaming service deals for students come with a free trial beforehand, allowing you to save money before committing to the service. After your free trial ends, you’ll usually be charged a reduced, student-only rate.

To snag even deeper discounts, some streaming services offer bundle options, giving you reduced rates to premium and ad-free versions of their platform.

It’s easy to qualify, too — all you need is a school email that ends in “.edu” to verify your student status, then you can stream all you want.

What Are the Best Student Streaming Deals?

Rather than make you hunt for the discounts yourself, ShopBillboard rounded up the best student subscription service deals below to help you start saving money immediately.

Hulu Student Plan

Hulu is offering a student discount for a total steal — like, 75% off steal. For just $1.99/month you can get access to the ad-supported plan and streaming service’s vast library of Hulu Originals, TV series and movies — and all for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. And, you have the discount for as long as you’re enrolled in a college or university.

Both current and new subscribers are eligible for the student discount and can look forward to watching Only Murders in the Building, The Beautiful Things, The Kardashians, How I Met Your Father, Dollface, The Dropout, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Handmaid’s Tale, Not Okay, Prey, White Men Can’t Jump and other Hulu originals, along with most new episodes from network TV and cable shows the day after they air.

Max Student Discount

Max is offering a 50% off membership for its ad plan exclusively for students enrolled in a U.S. accredited college or university. Instead of paying $9.99/month, you can get access to the entire Max library including HBO content, Discovery, Adult Swim and Warner Bros. movies for only $4.99/month.

To snag the deal, you’ll need to verify your student status through through UNiDAYS, then you’ll instantly get the streamer for 50% off for as long as you’re a student.

Programs you can look forward to streaming include Industry, Barbie, The Last of Us, Game of Thrones: The House of the Dragon, The Penguin, Beetlejuice, Civil War, Furiosa, The White Lotus, His Dark Materials, The Iron Claw, Love & Death, The Sopranos and more.

Amazon Prime Student Membership

Consider Amazon Prime your one-stop destination, whether it’s for last-minute backpacks or some travel necessities. Besides deals and discounts, students can also take advantage of its immense Prime Video library all for $7.49/month — and that’s after a six month free-trial.

Prime Student gives you all the perks of a Prime membership, but at half the cost — literally. As long as you’re a student, you’ll get access to the massive collection of Prime Originals that includes Citadel, Daisy Jones & The Six, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Swarm, The Powder, Harlem, Invincible, The Boys, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Fleabag, The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Wheel of Time, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Legend of Vox Machina.

You can also add additional channels such as Max, Starz and Showtime channels and enjoy even more shows and movies all in one spot. Aside from Prime Video access, Student Prime members get access to Prime Music, Prime Gaming and Prime Reading in addition to free same-day, one-day or two-day delivery on millions of items, exclusive deals, groceries, savings on prescriptions and more.

Apple Music Student Subscription

Apple is treating students to free Apple TV+ when you sign up for it’s Apple Music Student subscription. New users who sign up will receive a 30 day free trial, which will give you access to Apple Music’s vast library of songs, playlists, artists and more as well as the entire Apple TV+ library. Once the free trial is over, you’ll be charged a reduced price of just $5.99/month (reg. $10.99/month). To take advantage of this perk, you’ll have to verify your student status through UNiDAYS.

Apple TV+‘s library includes exclusive shows and movies such as Palm Royale, Masters of the Air, Sugar, Ted Lasso, Platonic, The Crowded Room, Severance, Loot, High Desert, The Last Thing He Told Me, Silo, Ghosted, Shrinking, The Problem with John Stewart, Schmigadoon! and The Morning Show.

You can stream Apple TV+ on the Apple TV app, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and popular smart TVs such as Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL, Toshiba and others, along with Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV. Apple TV+ is available on PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles as well.

Disney+ Student Deal

Disney+ is offering students 15% off the first year of membership when you sign up for an annual membership. Just verify your student status through UNiDAYS, then you’ll be eligible for the deal. After the 12 months are up, you’ll be charged the regular annual fee of $79.99/year.

The basic plan is only $7.99/month (or $79.99/year) with ads, but if you want a no-ad experience, you can snag a Disney+ Premium plan for just $10.99/month (or $139.99/year).

Besides that, the streaming service offers multiple bundled deals that can save you money on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+. Rather than splurge on all three service separately, this deal will provide all three at one cost starting at $13/month.

Disney+ subscribers can access the ever-expanding streaming library in stunning 4K and download titles to watch on the go. Stream on up to four different devices simultaneously on your TV, laptop, smartphone, notebook or tablet device — or host a virtual movie night with up to six friends via GroupWatch.

Users will find thousands of hours’ worth of movies and TV series including Peter Pan & Wendy, Muppets Mayhem, Avatar: Way of the Water, American Born Chinese, Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All, The Prouder Family: Louder & Prouder, WandaVision, Moon Knight, The Mandalorian, Andor, Loki, The Book of Boba Fett, The Beatles Get Back, Hocus Pocus 2, The Simpsons, Welcome to Earth and Called to the Wild are included in the massive Disney+ streaming library.

Paramount+ Student Discount

Paramount+ is offering a stellar discount for students providing it’s ad-supported plan for 25% off a month. To qualify you have to be a part of an accredited college or Title IV higher education institution (high school students are not eligible).

Whether you’re a new subscriber or current member of Paramount+, the streamer is providing 25% off its Essential Plan dropping it from $5.99/month to just $4.50/month. Just verify your student status through the streamer and you’ll be able to enjoy the discounted cost.

The discounted subscription will let you stream tens of thousands of episodes and movies including exclusive programs from BET to MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and The Smithsonian Channel. The lineup of Paramount+ series includes Fatal Attraction, The Family Stone, School Spirits, Star Trek: Picard, 1923, 1883, Mayor of Kingstown, Seal Team, Star Trek Discovery, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, Why Women Kill, Before I Forget, iCarly, The Tony Awards and Rugrats.

Additionally, Paramount+ subscribers can stream new movies, live content and specials such as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Scream VI, 80 for Brady, Top Gun: Maverick, and Babylon.

Peacock Student Discount

Fans of The Office, Parks & Recreation, Saturday Night Live and more NBC shows can take advantage of Peacock‘s current student streaming deal. For 12 months, students can gain access to the platform for $1.99/month (regularly $5.99/month). Each year you’ll need to reverify your student status to continue earning the discounted price

To qualify for the discount, you’ll need to verify your student status annually through SheerID, and from there you’ll receive a unique promo code to use a checkout that’ll automatically apply the discount.

Once you’re subscribed you’ll have access to all of Peacock’s library, which includes Peacock Originals, movies, TV series and live sports. Programming to re-watch, discover and/or binge include New Girl, Based on a True Story, Vanderpump Rules, Hart to Hart, Bel Air, Poker Face, Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin, The Voice and more.

Linkin Park are going back back to the start. The rock band dropped the hard-hitting new single “Heavy Is the Crown” on Tuesday (Sept. 24), a rager that will be the official anthem for the League of Legends World Championship. The follow-up to the band’s first new music in seven years — the previously released “The Emptiness Machine” — has the revived LP line-up leaning into its patented rap/rock attack, while new singer Emily Armstrong pays tribute to classic LP on the song’s screamed chorus.

“This is what you asked for, heavy is the crown/ Fire in the sunrise, ashes rainin’ down,” yowls Armstrong, the former Dead Sara vocalist who has stepped into late singer Chester Bennington’s co-lead singer spot. “Try to hold it in, but it keeps bleeding out,” she adds in a touching homage to one of LP 1.0’s most beloved hits, the 2007 Minutes to Midnight single “Bleed It Out.”

The song is the band’s first collaboration with Riot Games, the company behind multiplayer online battle game League, and it serves as the latest taste of LP’s first album since 2017, From Zero (Nov. 15). In addition, co-founders singer/rapper Mike Shinoda, guitarist Brad Delson, turntablist Joe Hahn and bassist Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, as well as Armstrong and new drummer Colin Brittain, have announced three additional stadium dates to their current six-show From Zero World Tour, which lands at London’s O2 Arena on Tuesday night.

After hitting South Korea on Sept. 28, the band will play a pair of newly announced shows in Paris at the La Defense Arena on Nov. 3 and Globe Life Field in Dallas on Nov. 8 before flying down to Bogota, Colombia for a previously announced gig at the Coliseo Medplus on Nov. 11 and wrapping things up on Nov. 15 at Allianz Park in São Paulo, Brazil in the final of three just-added dates.

As they gear up for their album release, LP are celebrating “The Emptiness Machine” jumping from No. 24-to-No. 1 in its second week on Billboard’s Rock & Alternative Airplay chart; the song has also shot to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs chart dated Sept. 21.

Listen to “Heavy Is the Crown” and watch a preview of the video below.

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This is The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between.

This week: Nelly faces a copyright lawsuit over his decades-old album Country Grammar; T.I. and his wife Tiny win a shocking $71 million jury verdict against a toymaker; the Michael Jackson estate takes legal action against a sexual abuse accuser; and much more. 

THE BIG STORY: A Legal Blast From The Past

Nearly a quarter century after Nelly’s breakout album, he’s now getting sued over it – and by his childhood friends, no less. 

The case, filed by members of his early-career St. Lunatics group, claims that Nelly (Cornell Haynes) “manipulated” them into thinking they’d be paid for their work on the 2000 album Country Grammar, but that he ultimately cut them out of the credits and the royalty payments. 

“Every time plaintiffs confronted defendant Haynes [he] would assure them as ‘friends’ he would never prevent them from receiving the financial success they were entitled to,” the lawsuit reads. “Unfortunately, plaintiffs, reasonably believing that their friend and former band member would never steal credit for writing the original compositions, did not initially pursue any legal remedies.” 

Copyright lawsuits over years-old songs have become a common sight in the music industry over the past decade, thanks largely to a Supreme Court ruling that said such cases were mostly fair game. But the plaintiffs in the current case – which is styled as an infringement lawsuit but appears to really be more of a dispute over ownership – could still face hurdles over their long delay. 

To understand why, go read our full story on the lawsuit, with access to the actual lawsuit filed against Nelly. 

Other top stories this week…

NOT A TINY VERDICT – T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris won a stunning $71 million jury verdict in their lawsuit claiming that toymaker MGA stole the design of a line of “O.M.G.” toy dolls from their real-life teen pop group OMG Girlz. Following a three-week trial, a jury found that MGA  infringed both the trade dress and the likeness rights of the OMG Girlz — a defunct trio created by Tiny featuring her daughter Zonnique “Star” Pullins. 

JACKSON ESTATE ACTION – Michael Jackson’s estate filed an arbitration case against a man who it claims has threatened to resurface ugly abuse allegations ahead of the upcoming release of Michael, a biopic about the King of Pop. According to the estate, the accuser signed a never-before-reported settlement in 2020 that saw him paid $3.3 million in return for signing a non-disclosure agreement, but now he’s threatening to breach the deal if he’s not paid another $213 million. 

DIDDY STAYS IN JAIL – Sean “Diddy” Combs was once again refused bail in his sex abuse case, after a federal judge ruled that the indicted rapper and music executive would pose a flight risk and might intimidate witnesses if released. His lawyers renewed their request to let him await trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges under house arrest at his Miami mansion, but Judge Andrew L. Carter ruled Diddy must instead wait for the trial in a Brooklyn federal prison. 

REASONABLE DOUBT? Raise your hand if you had “Jay-Z argues with New York City over arcane issues of intellectual property law” on your 2024 bingo card. With a court-ordered auction of Damon Dash’s stake in Roc-A-Fella Records looming, lawyers for the superstar and the city are somehow now wrangling over whether he can use copyright termination to retake control of his debut album Reasonable Doubt. That’s a crucial question for anyone who wants to buy Dash’s stake in Roc-A-Fella – and for a municipal government that’s trying to use the auction to recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid child support. 

DOLAN CASE TOSSED – A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Madison Square Garden executive James Dolan of pressuring a masseuse into unwanted sex while his band toured with the Eagles, ruling that his accuser had failed to meet the requirements of a federal sex trafficking law. But the case, which also includes simpler, state-law allegations of sexual battery and aiding and abetting of sexual assault, will likely be refiled in state court. 

SPICE SETTLEMENT – Ice Spice reached an agreement to end a copyright lawsuit over allegations that her recent hit “In Ha Mood” was copied from an earlier track called “In That Mood” by a Brooklyn rapper named D.Chamberz (Duval Chamberlain). Terms of the apparent settlement were not disclosed in court filings. 

MANILOW BATTLE – Hipgnosis Songs Fund, one of the most influential players in the catalog acquisition market run-up of recent years, is locked in litigation with Barry Manilow – a two-way, trans-Atlantic legal battle that sheds light on the company’s 2020 deal to buy the singer’s royalty income. Billboard’s Elizabeth Dilts Marshall dove deep into the court filings and breaks it all down here. 

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Elton John is taking his final trip down the yellow brick road in a new book by the 77-year-old. Titled Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour, the Rocket Man himself is giving exclusive access to his record-breaking Farewell tour with never-before-seen photos and postcards from his life on the road.

Each page spotlights key moments and memories from the almost five-year spanning tour, written by John himself. The collectable was officially released on Tuesday (Sept. 24), and already has eager fans snatching it up, earning a No. 1 bestseller badge on Amazon for portrait photography. As an added bonus, the book is on sale for up to 37% off marking it down to less than $50.

Before you hear from the Grammy winner, you’ll read a foreword by David Furnish, Elton’s husband and manager, giving you a new perspective and look at the star from someone close to him.

Keep reading to learn about the book and where to buy Farewell Yellow Brick Road online.

The music book promises to be an “epic visual journey,” featuring vibrant photographs and key moments retold by the artist himself, including his life before superstardom and his musical inspirations. Specific performances from the tour will also be spotlighted throughout the photography book, in addition to a closer look at the artist’s wardrobe designed exclusively by Gucci, the set design and more official tour photography.

While John may be retired from touring, fans can still relive the magic of his shows through this collectable book as well as from Disney+’s Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium recording of his final performance from 2023.

For more product recommendations, check out ShopBillboard‘s roundups of the best country music books, books about jazz and female musician memoirs.

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Reba McEntire is getting her very own Funko Pop! The country icon teamed with Funko to debut a limited-edition Pop! vinyl available for pre-order starting on Tuesday (Sept. 24).

To celebrate the Season 26 premiere of The Voice, McEntire gifted her team with a special Pop! collectible on air. While the Pop! vinyl won’t be available for purchase, McEntire didn’t want fans to miss out on the chance to have their own Funko Pop!, so she collaborated with Funko for the limited release, which pays homage to her 1993 CMT appearance.

“I’m so excited to kick off my collaboration with Funko! My fans have been asking for this and we’re starting off with ‘The Red Dress’ that I wore on the 1993 CMA Awards,” McEntire said in a statement to Billboard. “I always said I got more press off that dress than if I’d won an award that night. Over 30 years later, it’s still making headlines!”

The Pop Rocks: Reba McEntire Funko ($15) features a gorgeously, detailed recreation of the red gown that McEntire wore for her 1993 CMA Awards performance. The Funko Pop! is available exclusively at Funko.com from Sept. 24 until Nov. 1.

“Every designer dreams of creating iconic moments, and to have done it with Reba at the 1993 CMA Awards is a memory for the ages,” said designer Sandy Spika Borchetta. “I’ll never forget that moment when the curtains opened and we heard a literal gasp from the audience! I thought I’d be fired!  Instead, the press Reba received the next day, from coast to coast, was inescapable. Reba had won the night in more ways than one and she was the leading story for the CMA Awards. What a joy for all of us that people still talk about, ‘The Red Dress.’”