For people that are wondering about the new plan and the cryptic "basic individual" that's not marked as premium — you still keep all the basic features of your basic music plan. The literal difference is that there's no access to audiobooks. Once I secured the basic, it showed all the features: save music, listen in any order, etc.

If you’re on a Spotify plan that includes monthly audiobook listening time, you can switch to a cheaper music-only plan by changing your subscription to the Spotify Basic plan, which was launched specifically to offer a lower-cost option without audiobooks. To do this, go to your account settings on the Spotify website or app and select the Basic plan, which provides ad-free music streaming and offline listening for a lower monthly price.

Spotify have been very quiet about telling users this information …..

I was going to cancel my Spotify plan cause I have 3 month Apple Music trial but I noticed that my current plan is cheaper than Basic? This doesn’t make sense to me cause I thought the premium plan was $12.69 CAD now!

Don't forget to switch to basic family with the price increase if you're the account holder and not using audio books!

Back to $16.99USD on basic... For now.

I listen to music 15hr~ a day. I don’t really wanna pay 10$ but I don’t want ads. Anyone with Spotify premium, would you recommend?

I listen to Spotify about 5 hours a week. I'm a high school student, so I don't qualify for the Student plan. I can only work during the summer, so I don't have very much money. No one else in my family listens to Spotify, so I can't use the Duo plan. Could you all recommend to me if I should buy Premium or not?

They're at it again. Starting on July, Spotify Premium will be $11.99, family plans will be $19.99, and duo will be $16.99 in the US. The fact that this comes just days after their CEO (Daniel Ek) belittled artists by saying the "cost of creating content is close to zero" irks me. Plus their service has honestly gone worse. They used to be great at music discovery but they're now recommending the same songs from the same artists over and over again. Their UI is now too cluttered because they want to do too much. And their artist royalty payments are still one of the lowest. Unsubscribing now...

I am SO SICK of the ads and how I get a limited number of skips. The worst is when they force me to listen to a random song. YouTube is annoying because I have to go all the way to the website and can’t even make a playlist there. Also free music apps seem to have shitty sound quality(Musi is one I use and sound quality is inconsistent). So should I just get premium?

I was looking into the plan options available, having had Premium for years. And I saw that there is Basic, for £1/month less. It's available as an option on my account, it said when I searched for it that if it doesn't show up then you're ineligible for it but it DOES show up so I could switch to it and save a little money.

The question is, what's the difference?

I know that people with Free get ads, can't disable Shuffle and only get a few skips per day.

With Premium, you can play a playlist in order, skip as much as you want, and don't get ads.

With Basic it's stated that you don't get ads. But what about forced shuffle and limited skips? It doesn't mention that, and there has to be some difference right? Otherwise why is it cheaper?

(P.S the recent change to queueing on mobile where you now can't just tick a dozen songs and remove them from the current queue anymore is a horrible change which worsens user experience for no discernable reason and I hate it. Not the point of this post though.)

I recently signed up for Spotify premium. Some of my friends call me crazy. But as a mathematician, I decided to break down the math for them, along with you.

Let’s start off by assuming that you bought the Spotify personal plan, which would cost you about $9.99. Seems pretty pricy, right? Nope!

According to most websites, Spotify gives you a range of one-four minutes of ads every hour. To keep things simple, let’s just say that you get 2:30s of ads every hour. According to https://headphonesaddict.com, people in the U.S. listen to an average of 26.9 hours per week, but let’s just round that down to 25 to keep things simple. Here’s the data we have so far:

• You listen to 2 minutes and 30 seconds of ads every hour.

• You listen to 25 hours of music every week.

Looks good? Good. 2:30s of ads an hour doesn’t sound like too much of an inconvenience, but what if I told you that that’s a whopping 1:02:05s of ads every single week? Imagine having to listen to a whole hour of advertisement. And that adds up to a massive, MASSIVE 4 hours, 29 minutes, and 45 seconds of advertisements every month. Let’s re-analyze what we have so far.

• You listen to 2:30s of advertisements every hour.

  • That adds up to be 1:02:05s of ads every week (150 seconds × 25 hours a week)

  • That also adds up to 4:29:45s of ads every month. (1:02:05s × 4.34524 weeks in a month)

• You listen to 25 hours of music every week.

These numbers are getting pretty high. Without these calculations, it would be hard to believe that you have to bear with *four hours* of advertisements every month. This is where premium comes in. Assuming that you’re spending $9.99 a month on premium, you’re spending quite literally 0.0006 cents to remove every second of advertisements. To put that into perspective, that’s like if you took a penny and chopped it into 16 pieces, and spent each piece to skip a second of advertisements. Even better, that ads up to be just a little bit over three cents to skip a minute of ads. Let’s just re-analyze our data again.

• You listen to 25 hours of music every week.

• You listen to 2:30s of advertisements every hour.

  • That adds up to be 1:02:05s of ads every week (150 seconds × 25 hours a week)

  • That also adds up to 4:29:45s of ads every month. (1:02:05s × 4.34524 weeks in a month)

• It costs you about 0.0006 cents to skip a single second of advert.

  • That’s only three cents to remove a minute of advertisements, crazy!

I mean I think it’s quite obvious that Spotify Premium is obviously worth it. And those calculations are based on the individual Spotify Premium plan, not even the family plan. Assuming that six people are all using the family plan, each person is only paying $2.50 a month for their plan. That lowers the 0.036 cents to less than a cent (0.00924).

It’s crazy to think that everything I have calculated is only for advertisements. There are plenty of other rich features that come with premium, including unlimited skips, downloads, and some others.

I’m not here to say that you should be Spotify Premium, but please, stop saying that it’s a waste of money.

Tl;dr: premium is not a waste of money!1!!

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Edit: people are saying "i hate ads after every 2-3 songs. I have no idea why but I get 30 seconds ads after like, 8 or 10 songs. I don't have premium not any mod or something. Just pure vanilla Spotify from playstore and still no ads for around 10 songs

Edit 2: thank you everyone. I've now understood that Spotify premium IS worth the money. Thanks for all the info 🙏🏻

Just got this email:

The price of Premium Individual is changing from $9.99/month to $10.99/month.

We’re increasing the price of Premium Individual so that we can continue to invest in and innovate on our product offerings and features, and bring you the best experience.

Since you’re already a Premium subscriber, you will pay $9.99/month until your billing date in September when your subscription will go up to the new price.*

Thanks for being a fan of Premium.

The Spotify Team.