How to Delete Spotify Account Permanently

Spotify is one of the best music streaming services on the web. It has a huge library of songs and podcasts from various artists. Premium members can play their favorite music uninterrupted by ads. But it also has some limitations that can get in the way of your listening experience.

If you want to your Spotify account permanently, we are here to help you. But before we proceed, here’s what to know before deleting your Spotify account:

• After you delete your Spotify Account, you will lose your playlists and followers.
• You will not to sign up with same username again if you want to open a new Spotify account.
• You cant delete your Spotify account without canceling your subscription first.
• Spotify allows you to recover your account within seven days.

Delete Spotify Account (Free)

If you have a Free Spotify account, you can directly delete it by going to its website. However, you should cancel the plan before deleting your account if you have a subscription.

1. Go to the Spotify website, and log into your account

2. Select ”Support”

3. Go to ”Account Help” and select ”Account Settings.”

4. Select ”Closing your account”

6. Select ” close account.”

7. Verify your account and tap on ”continue.”

8. Tick the ”I understand” box and select ”Continue.”

10. Click ”Close my account” in your email

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Reasons to delete a Spotify Account.

Below, you will find reasons people want to delete their Spotify account, from expensive subscription plans to data usage.

Reason 1: Expensive plans

Spotify subscription plans are expensive, especially for users who don’t use the App frequently. It also provides a free version but doesn’t have great features like the subscription plan.

Reason 2: Too many Ads

As we mentioned above, the free version is not very user-friendly as the upgraded version. Spotify keeps popping up ads while listening to songs or podcasts. This can be pretty annoying as you have to listen until the ad disappears.

Reason 3: Low Sound Quality (Free Users)

The sound is of low Quality for free users. The free version allows you to stream music at 128 kbps on a desktop and 160 kbps on mobile. On the other hand, premium users can stream music at a max bitrate of 320 kbps on desktop and mobile. 

Reason 4: Require Wi-Fi to work

You cant use Spotify wherever you go if you don’t have an internet connection. You can upgrade to premium versions to save songs and listen offline. For the free users, there is no other way.

On the other hand, music providers on the market allow you to listen offline without a subscription to premium plans. So, why should you have a premium Spotify account when you can have all those features in a free app ?!

Reason 5: Data Usage

Streaming Quality directly affects data usage. The higher the Quality, the more data consumed. Spotify provides four different quality settings: low, medium, high, and very high. 

Setting the streaming quality to the highest level will consume about 3.6 MB of data. Premium users can set higher stream quality, which consumes about 7.2 MB of data. This means Spotify spends so much data on streaming music, which will cost so much in the future.

Reason 6: The Joe Rogan Covid-19 misinformation

Joe Rogan, a famous podcaster, started a series of discussions against COVID-19 vaccines. While he advised healthy young people not to vaccinate, other artists criticized him harshly. 

The first to leave the platform was Neil Young, and after him, many other celebrities and thousands of users boycotted Spotify. Many people posted on Twitter with the hashtags #deletespotify and #cancelspotify. 

Daniel EK, the founder of Spotify, stated, ”Everyone can say, talk about whatever they want as long as it doesn’t break the platform’s rules.” However, this situation caused damage to the company. 

Our Final Thoughts

In just under 5 minutes, you can delete your Spotify account permanently. Account deletion is pretty simple. However, go over each step and think about your decision as you could lose personal data.

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