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Spotify delivers music streaming services where users can access songs, podcasts and playlists through both free and premium subscriptions. Since its inception in 2006, Spotify has expanded its offerings to include personalized recommendations and social listening features.

Pros
  • Wide variety of music available
  • User-friendly interface
  • Excellent audio quality
  • Personalized music recommendations
Cons
  • Frequent ads in free version
  • Difficulties with customer support
  • Technical issues with app performance

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    Customer ServiceCoverageOnline & AppBilling

    Reviewed Aug. 22, 2025

    Like others here, I had to replace a credit card because their billing department used my account fraudulently. I tried to resolve the matter on their chat, but they were very evasive and wasted my time. It was clear to the bank that they used my account fraudulently. It saddens me to see them get away with mass fraud, which I read countless accounts of. I got out unscathed, though they wasted a lot of my time. I wouldn't even trust having their app on my phone after seeing how slippery they can be.

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    Sales & MarketingRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Aug. 4, 2025

    If I could give a zero I would. It is a shame as it could be a good company. I would pay for there product. BUT SOOOOO deceitful and once you sign up, good luck with the ride. They scam any way they can. Tough to cancel and tough to contact.

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    Refunds & Payouts

    Reviewed June 13, 2025

    I’ve used Spotify for years and enjoyed it but in the last two years they’ve started making software changes that have taken away my ability to listen to the music I have paid for the way I want to listen to it.

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    Punctuality & SpeedRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed May 30, 2025

    They make you pay for premium even tho you're at your house using wifi at home. Like I’ll just use YouTube if I can’t even pick the songs I want to listen to. Bad idea whoever came up with that. Free version should convince you to buy it. Not make you go to other apps to do the same thing. For an easier for less annoying ways. Even if you’re at home. I used to love this app but discriminates the users that are in the free mode even tho they will buy premium later. Treats those users like garbage.

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    Reviewed May 13, 2025

    Spotify, why do you constantly say "Enjoy a half hour of commercial free music" and then play one song and have a commercial? Why do you get my hopes up only to disappoint me? For this reason I will never subscribe to Premium.

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed Sept. 24, 2024

    Spotify should be getting a law suit. They let other artist use same name. They don’t police anything and use the copyright excuse and to “file”. This is such a detriment to sales and marketing alone. It’s taken many years of my reputation also. I had no clue. Spotify is going to be sued .

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    PriceRefunds & PayoutsBillingRates

    Reviewed Sept. 7, 2024

    I have been with Spotify since the beginning. Never any issues. I was reviewing bills and realized I was charged for price increases that I was not notified. I contacted support without resolution as to refund the changed charges. Told me I have not been charged for the basic plan yet, what is that? You overcharged me with your so-called price increases without notification of the increase. I asked for 9$ back and you pretty much told me good luck. I have now canceled my subscription and will not pay for this service again. I am very disappointed that this service has gouged the costs so high, I will listen to the radio before paying 20 bucks a month. Bye Spotify!

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    Refunds & PayoutsTransparency

    Reviewed July 4, 2024

    Spotify blames the Music Artist for being on artificial playlist by submitting a complaint to Music distributor to remove songs! So, the music artist is assumed guilty before being assumed innocent!
    Spotify solution is to go back to distributor and ask them to send an updated metadata of songs to go live again. Then Music Distributor gives options in which puts all the burden on the Music artist to begin the tedious process of uploading the songs again and it take lots of time. In short, instead of Spotify targeting invalid playlist culprits and removing or blocking them, its easier for Spotify and Distributor to put the blame on the Music artist especially when the artist did not pay for artificial playlist!
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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsBilling

    Reviewed June 7, 2024

    I am absolutely frustrated trying to just get my account that I do not use canceled. The account was generated off of an email address that I no longer have access to and because I don’t receive a paper statement from my bank and the last four digits of my current credit card on file don’t match, they are refusing to comply with my request. I have been going around in circles with these people. I’m not even asking for a refund, I’m only asking that they don’t bill me further.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsStaffBilling

    Reviewed May 10, 2024

    They robbed me 4 times last winter in one month and still wouldn't turn my subscription back on telling me I have free Spotify on another account I didn't open, if there's someone out there looking to sue these people please call me. Hundreds of dollars they have taken and when I want it back they want the first 6 numbers and last 4 numbers on credit card. That's how they will know which account it's under but not phone number or email. Both of those only have one user for each but that doesn't help them, absolute crooks and if someone out there needs proof to go after them I have screen shots of everything they have stolen from me. **. Email me. I'd be glad to get my money and time I've dealt with these people over... Please?

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed May 8, 2024

    I've had this app for a while and I liked it cause I would read the lyrics because I'm usually very bored in class a lot so I would just do that until they did the stupid "Spotify Premium lyrics" so now you have to pay 15$ a month just to listen to music without ads and have lyrics. They did the ban for money reasons cause people in India don't want to pay that garbage. And I installed it on my computer and it won't screw off. DON'T INSTALL THIS GARBAGE!

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2024

    This worthless app is gone downhill for the last year. Had it for 6 years. What a piece of crap it is. My gosh just shut down you worthless Poo. Now without premium there's Three Advertisements to every song. I'll go back to the radio. This is garbage. There's nothing good that comes out of Sweden. Especially this ** app bunch of losers. Do not get this app. I'm stuck with all my songs on this stupid app. And I can't go anywhere else. I spent years on it. I hope they go out of business. Everybody go for free and don't give him a penny. The worthless poop company poopifyid Should be their name

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    Contract & TermsPriceRefunds & PayoutsBilling

    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2024

    I have had Spotify for many years. It's a below average web player. It always plays the same songs, from my very long list, when I use the shuffle feature. It would never play all of the songs. But, for $15, I decided it was ok. Then I decided to cancel my Premium subscription and go down to the free subscription. Spotify still charged me for the Premium over a month after I downgraded. I'm on chat with them, trying to get refunded and they are demanded my credit card information. They have that info or they wouldn't have been able to charge it. I had to cancel my card to prevent future deductions. Extremely frustrated right now and will NEVER give Spotify another account number.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2023

    I pay for premium because I don't want ads. There are a ton of ads still!!! It doesn't help that I have to find my phone and manually fast forward and guess how many times I have to hit the bloody button. This company is horrible! I am cancelling my service.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsBilling

    Reviewed Aug. 5, 2023

    The music streaming was good. However I was double billed several months, and they would not reimburse, even though it was a child's account. The customer service was awful, and it is not easy to access - you cannot just call. And the person on the text would not budge, it took a long time for the person to respond, and ended up dropping off from the text saying someone else would be with me. No one else responded. I ended up having to dispute it through my credit card company.

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    Billing

    Reviewed March 13, 2023

    They have been billing me for services that I do not receive and I do not have an account with them. It is impossible to a resolution with them and all we can do is try to block credit card payment. We never sign up with them so they basically stole our credit card information.

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    Refunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2022

    While it is nice to select some of the song one might want to hear, they make the free service particularly unpleasant. Their only goal seems to get you to pay for the service, so they can funnel the songs your way that make THEM the most money. The commercials are frequent, every 2 or 3 songs, long, and repetitive. I have not tried any other music 'service' (yet) but one of those would have to be better than Spotify.

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 15, 2022

    Please for the love of god do not signup with them, they will rip you off, after a year I found out that they've been charging 2 a month, to most people they charge without a subscription, just google what I'm telling you and you will find out. This company was created supposedly to help people have a fair and healthy platform to listen to music but now greediness got into them and are doing the same thing as the other company. Just google Spotify double charging people and you will see.

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    Customer ServiceTechSales & MarketingPriceRefunds & PayoutsMaintenanceStaffResolutionTimeliness

    Reviewed Sept. 2, 2022

    As a professional business consultant, I am working with plenty of vendors. Therefore, I need to say I am extremely disappointed in Spotify's platform for Advertising. It was my company's first-time using Spotify's platform for Advertising. I set an Ad up and kept getting an error. I reached out to customer service to help fix the issue. They suggested I create a new Ad from scratch with the recommended fix. I did what they told me, and the Ad went through. They never told me I needed to remove the incorrect Ad. So, I assumed that I wouldn't be getting charged because it wasn't set up correctly.

    The next day, I was charged for the error-ed Ad. For some reason, it had been posted without my knowledge, so I reached out to customer service to explain the issue. They told me they had given me instructions to fix the issue (which they did NOT tell me I needed to remove the error-ed Ad), and since the wrongly posted Ad got "impressions" they would not be issuing me a refund. I have had to go through hoops to get answers or help with this issue from the very beginning. Please do not use this platform for advertising as their system is NOT user-friendly, and their customer service is very unprofessional. My recommendation: Find a better company for Ads!

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    Sales & MarketingOnline & App

    Reviewed Aug. 9, 2022

    I am totally satisfied with this streaming platform. I like the way the app works and how the algorithm shows me new artists. It is also great for sharing music listening habits with friends. Highly recommend!

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    Staff

    Reviewed June 26, 2022

    They have been taking 12.00 out of my account for last two years and I don't even use spotify, anyone help me? Wanna know if I can take them to small claims court... What a horrible company that I don't even use.

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    Reviewed May 24, 2022

    Just want to watch the Joe Rogan Experience. I cannot see the video of the podcast on my Apple Laptop.. I can hear it. HOW much work do I have to do to get video to play? I don't even see where the settings button is. Reinstall everything? Forget it. The computer is supposed to be a tool. Well, it's too much work. When it's time to keep constantly fixing your tool, maybe it's time to figure out a different way to live. Bye Bye Spotify.

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    Customer ServiceTransparency

    Reviewed March 30, 2022

    I've attempted to unsubscribe to email updates for any communication from Spotify on multiple occasions. More than three times I've attempted to do this has resulted in the crashing of the unsubscribe web page essentially making it impossible to actually unsubscribe. I have a screenshot of this but cannot post it here.

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    PriceHonesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2022

    I can't believe it SPOTIFY would rather give up Neil Young for Rogan the spouter of lies and false information, well Spotify as a long time customer I had to cancel my subscription. I guess money is worth more than the truth well SPOTIFY a big **.

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    Sales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed Sept. 26, 2021

    I have had a Spotify account for years. I have had both the free version and the premium. I currently cannot afford to purchase the membership, like so many others out there. Have you ever seen the movie Idiocracy? You need to. Now, with the free version of Spotify, for every 2 songs that play, there are 5 advertisements. It is absolutely ridiculous. I'm done with Spotify. I do not get to choose how poor I am and I sick of forced advertisements.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsBilling

    Reviewed Sept. 26, 2021

    We signed up for a Hulu/Spotify trial back in 2019. We liked it so we decided to switch from Pandora to Spotify. HUGE MISTAKE. I remember this vividly because I had been using Pandora for over a decade and my daughter talked me in to cancelling for Spotify. We cancelled our trial, and I opened up a family plan. I invited my 2 daughters and my wife to our family plan, one using the Free Trial email, and all was good. I saw all 4 of our accounts, we signed up for the plan, all good.

    Well, in 2019 something changed, and our original email dropped from my family plan and started charging us for a single account, on top of our family plan. I didn't realize this because one charge showed up at the end of the statement, and the other a week later on the new statement. I finally noticed, and contacted their customer support.

    They continued to blame me and said since both accounts were in use, they would not credit or refund the charges. Even though their system messed up and dropped our trial email from our family plan, he basically made fun of me and told me it was my fault. I didn't even want a refund, I just asked that the 100's of dollars they pretty much stole from me be refunded and he only offered the most recent payment.

    On top of all of this, why would you charge the same credit card 2 times and not say something to your customer? What shady business practice makes you feel like it's ok to charge someone 2 times for 2+ years and not send an email saying "Hey, just making sure you want 2 accounts". Or how about taking ownership that your system failed and just say "sorry" instead of trying to make me feel like I made a mistake? We will never use them again. Back to Pandora THANK GOD. At least they treated me with respect over the years.

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    Sales & MarketingOnline & App

    Reviewed Sept. 1, 2021

    My Spotify experience has been extremely horrific, I deleted the app after Geico commercials playing approximately 20db higher than the music I am playing. I now am paying an attorney to collect data using my account to monitor and record data on the loudness of commercials versus the music people are listening to. I went to my ENT doctor and got a perfect score on my hearing test, went again a week ago and now show hearing loss. Thank you spotify. You actually turned off all Geico commercials on my account but now that your app has damaged my hearing. I'm going a step further and whatever it takes to makes spotify responsible for their actions!!!!

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    PriceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2021

    Cancelled Spotify premium service. They strongarm you into keeping the free service, which I did. This didn't cancel my premium subscription. I was again charged. They have a no refunds policy. I didn't use a second of the new month but will not get a refund.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceOnline & App

    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2021

    For some reason, Spotify thinks they are entitled to force their choices of songs on to me. I have disabled the similar tracks field, but they keep choosing music they believe I will like. If I liked these artists, wouldn't they already be on my playlist? They also play many of my songs far more than others on my list. I hate the ads, especially the ones that you would be embarrassed for your kids or others in the vehicle to listen to. It seems like there are way more ads than before. I finally uninstalled the app from my phone. I used to like Spotify, but it is way more hassle than it is worth.

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    PriceRefunds & PayoutsMaintenanceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2021

    Spotify demonstrates epic (bordering on fraudulent) mismanagement on their customer-facing financial operation. The fact that it is literally not possible to speak with a human being to resolve any errors says it all. They are structured to hide behind internet anonymity. That information alone should stop responsible people from signing up. I had premium service for almost a year and was properly charged $10.66 monthly through automatic withdrawal.

    Suddenly in June, they hit me with the usual $10.66 and a separate charge of $9.99. In July I got the $10.66 charge AND a $15.99 charge. Because there is no normal and easy way to resolve any issues with Spotify, I canceled my premium service in July. I had no plans to deal with this ridiculous company ever again. Then in July I was not charged the $10.66 BUT I WAS CHARGED $15.99. This is when I realized I was probably paying for someone else’s family plan or that Spotify hopes that no one watches what they do with customer accounts.

    They owe me $41.97 and because I can’t speak to anyone to fix this I will need to bar access to my account at my own expense. The problem is although they did cancel my premium service, it’s clear I will need to take drastic and costly action to stop their ongoing charge for a family plan I never had. I expect they would charge me this forever. This is unbelievable on every level. This review will also go to the BBB and the NC Consumer Protection Division and every agency with oversight, Spotify has to be reined in and they have to have a professional dispute resolution department. For now I have one word for music lovers: Amazon.

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