How do i change the email on my apple account

I have changed my email address and want to update my apple account.  It will not let me!  My recovery email address is currently the email address I would like to change the username/email to.
Help!

When you say it will not let you, are you sigining into appleid.apple.com and clicking 'Edit' next to Primary Email?
Also, you will not be able to use an email address that is already associated with the same or another Apple ID.
If your recovery is what you want the primary to be, what you will have to do is:
1. Create a new email address with any email provider such as gmail, hotmail, etc. (even if you don't aren't going to use it)
2. Change the Recovery email address to the newly created email address.
3. Change the Primary email address to what used to be the recovery.
4. Change the Recovery to what the Primary email used to be.

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