Spotify has started emailing subscribers informing them the cost of an individual subscription will rise from £11.99 to £12.99 a month from November.
Spotify begins writing to UK subscribers with millions of households warned
Spotify is set to increase prices AGAIN by 8.3 per cent – for millions of customers within days. Spotify has started emailing subscribers informing them the cost of an individual subscription will rise from £11.99 to £12.99 a month from November.
That’s an 8.3% increase or an extra £12 a year. A statement on Spotify’s website says: “We’re updating our Premium prices to ensure we can continue to innovate in changing market conditions and deliver the best audio content around the world.
“These changes help us keep providing subscribers with a highly personalised experience and powerful discovery tools, ultimately continuing to deliver value to our fans.”
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Money Saving Expert, the site founded by BBC and ITV star Martin Lewis, previously reported how Spotify users can get Spotify for free – if you can handle ads, plus listening on shuffle-only while on mobile.
MSE details: “To get Spotify Free, as the free version’s known, all you have to do is sign up using your email address and some personal info – no debit or credit card needed.
“With Spotify Free you can listen to all the music and podcasts you can with Spotify Premium, but the kicker is the following: your listening will be interrupted by adverts, you can’t download music to listen to offline, only podcasts, and on mobile (both app and web browser), you can’t select specific songs to listen to – you can only listen on ‘shuffle’ within an album or playlist (you’ll also hear tracks from similar artists).
“Also on mobile (both app and web browser), you’re limited to skipping only six tracks an hour.”
MSE said: “If you mostly listen on a computer and/or like to listen to music on shuffle, it’ll be right up your street.
“If you mostly listen on a smartphone or tablet and/or like to listen to specific tracks/albums (or have a low tolerance of adverts), a paid-for subscription or another service might be a better bet.”
