Spotify hikes UK subscription prices

Spotify is expanding the outgo of its UK premium subscription, the Money blog has revealed.

Emails person started going retired to subscribers informing them the outgo for an idiosyncratic subscription volition emergence from £11.99 to £12.99 a month.

It equates to an 8.3% increase.

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Spotify says subscribers volition get a one-month grace period.

It had announced earlier this twelvemonth that prices would spell up successful assorted territories - but it had not been wide if this included the UK.

The past hike, besides of £1, was introduced successful the outpouring of 2024.

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The Money blog has contacted Spotify for comment.

A connection connected its website says: "We're updating our Premium prices to guarantee we tin proceed to innovate successful changing marketplace conditions and present the champion audio contented astir the world.

"These changes assistance america support providing subscribers with a highly personalised acquisition and almighty find tools, yet continuing to present worth to our fans."

Subscribers who bash not privation to wage the other £1 tin cancel astatine immoderate clip earlier their adjacent billing date.

Spotify's pupil discount, making a subscription £5.99, appears to beryllium unchanged.

Spotify, based successful Sweden, is said to beryllium the biggest euphony subscription work successful the UK with 15.3 cardinal subscribers - astir fractional the market.