Neil Younger performs on the Bridge College Profit live performance on the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (Dan Honda/Bay Space Information Group)
Music followers are leaving Spotify en masse, to the extent that each #cancelspotify and #spotifyexodus have been trending on Twitter.
Neil Younger began the ball rolling, demanding the once-incredibly well-liked music streaming website choose between internet hosting his epic catalog or Joe Rogan’s controversial podcasts that the rocker and plenty of different critics say unfold harmful misinformation about COVID-19.
Spotify stored Rogan. And now loads of followers — in addition to different musicians equivalent to Joni Mitchell and Peter Frampton — are dropping the service in assist of Younger and others.
Trying to be part of them? Properly, the very first thing to know if you wish to cancel your Spotify premium subscription is that the corporate makes its fairly darn tough.
You’d assume you possibly can simply open the app and discover a bit of “cancel” button to push, proper? Nope. It’s extra alongside the strains of constructing a carburetor blindfolded whereas carrying mittens.
And don’t anticipate any assist from Spotify on this. In truth, investor William LeGate reported to his practically 180,000 followers on Twitter that the corporate just lately shut down its name middle.
“BREAKING: Spotify has shutdown its dwell buyer assist as a consequence of an unprecedented variety of complaints after they doubled-down on their Joe Rogan anti-vax marketing campaign,” LeGate tweeted.
BREAKING: Spotify has shutdown its dwell buyer assist as a consequence of an unprecedented variety of complaints after they doubled-down on their Joe Rogan anti-vax marketing campaign pic.twitter.com/yscw97xTkt
— LeGate (@williamlegate) January 27, 2022
Nonetheless wish to cancel your premium (i.e. paid, no-ads) account?
Properly — shock! — it seems you truly can’t do it by the Spotify app in your cellphone.
Don’t imagine us? Go forward and take a look at. Simply open the app after which click on on the settings. You’ll see heaps and plenty of choices, however not a single one which results in canceling the account.
CNET confirms that “you possibly can’t cancel your Spotify subscription by any of the service’s functions on iOS, Android, MacOS or Home windows.” Meaning you’ll should attempt to do by an precise net browser.
So, go to Spotify.com and login. As soon as there, click on in your identify within the higher proper nook. A drop down field seems the place you possibly can choose “account.”
Jog down the web page a bit of bit till the see the “change plan” choice. Hit “cancel premium” after which go verify that — sure, certainly — you wish to cancel.
That ought to care for your premium no-ads membership and Spotify ought to not cost you a price to make use of its companies. As a substitute, you’ll mechanically be transformed to a free membership, which interprets to with the ability to hearken to music with advertisements.
However perhaps that’s not going far sufficient for some individuals.
If you wish to transcend simply canceling — and as an alternative truly delete your premium membership — you’ll must contact Spotify customer support at https://assist.spotify.com/us/contact-spotify-support/.
However be ready to be affected person. We hear they're mighty busy proper now.