By subscribing to support AllMusic you receive a number of benefits including an ad-free experience, the website loading faster, and you'll get a warm feeling knowing that you're helping to support a site that has been providing music information for over two decades. More detail is available on our subscribe page. AllMusic uses services from Stripe and PayPal to manage the payment side of things. We don't hang onto your credit card information. Payment is $12 USD for one entire year. We are not doing recurring payments at this time, but we notify you when your subscription is nearly expired. If you'd like to subscribe for an additional year, visit the Paid Subscription page in your user account and enter in your credit card information again. If your credit card has a charge listed as "AllMusic" it is because you have signed up to become an AllMusic Subscriber to receive an ad-free and faster AllMusic experience. As is stated in our Terms of Service (section 3.5), we are unable to provide refunds on annual subscriptions after purchase. There are some things to note: Becoming a subscriber does not give access to stream full albums, to upload music, download music, change a band photo or alter the editorial content (reviews and biographies) provided on AllMusic. Subscribing does not guarantee uptime or that the site will never have hiccups. If the site craps out, we're all in the same boat.