Spotify, one of the largest streaming music services in the world, has always been providing three main plans for its subscribers, including Free, Premium and Family. Each plan has its own strengths and limits. But if you ask which plan is the most worthy one, I'd like to give my vote to the Premium for Family as it costs only $5 more than Premium plan but could be enjoyed by up to 6 people at the same time. In other words, to get your whole family on Spotify Premium plan, you only need to pay $14.99 per month. In case you still feel unclear about Spotify Family plan, I've put together everything about Spotify Premium for Family in this post, including how to start and manage Family account, how to add family members, and other Spotify Family plan FAQs.
When you receive the invitation to join someone's Premium Family, click or tap on the link they've.
Spotify Family Plan Development & Price Change
In fact, Spotify introduced its family plans back in 2014. It originally started at $14.99 for two users a month, $19.99 for three, $24.99 for four, and $29.99 for five users. In order to catch up with the competition with Apple Music and Google Play Music, Spotify changed the pricing to $14.99 for six users within a Family account last year.
Except the price, the Spotify Family plan hasn't changed in terms of what it offers. With Spotify Family account, you and other five family members can get access to over 30 million songs for just one price payable on a single bill. It also allows each family member to operate separate accounts so that everyone gets their own playlists, saved music, personal recommendations, and the full Spotify Premium experience, like listen offline songs, download ads-free tracks, play any song anytime on any device, etc.
How to Sign Up Spotify Premium for Family Plan
To start subscribing Spotify Family account, you should firstly go to sign up page spotify.com/family. Then click Get Started button and log in your Spotify account if you have already registered it as free users. Or you need to create a new user account there. Once logged in, you'll be navigated to the order page where you are required to choose the payment method and input your card info for subscription. At last, click Start My Premium for Family button to complete the subscribing.
After you successfully subscribed the Family plan, you'll be the account owner and authorized to invite or remove 5 family members on the plan.
How to Add or Remove Account from Spotify Premium for Family Plan
Managing users on your Spotify Family account is easy. No matter you want to add or remove the user, you can follow these steps:
Step 1. Go to Spotify account page: spotify.com/account.
Step 2. Click Premium for Family in the menu on the left.
Step 3. Click SEND INVITE.
Step 4. Enter the email address of the family member you want to invite and click SEND INVITE. Then a confirmation mail will be sent to you when they accept your invite.
Tips: To remove a member from your Spotify Family account, from Step 3, select the specific member you want to remove. Click REMOVE to proceed.
How to Change the Owner of Spotify Family Account
As a Family account owner is responsible for the plan's monthly payment, and managing the members, you may feel troublesome to handle all these stuffs. But don't worry. In this case, you can simply change the owner of the Family account to others. To get it done, the current owner first needs to cancel. When the remaining Premium time runs out and all accounts revert to Free, the new owner can resubscribe.
Other Spotify Premium for Family Plan FAQs
1. What will happen to my account if I join Premium for Family?
Once you sign up the Family pan, all of your account details will remain the same, including any saved music, playlists, and followers. Each member gets to keep their own individual account to play and save their own music.
2. How can I cancel the Spotify Family plan?
If you're the owner of Premium for Family, you can cancel the subscription any time. Then all members of your Family account will revert back to the Free service at the end of your current billing cycle. Or alternatively, you can simply downgrade to standard Premium plan on your subscription page. In result, all members in your Family plan will revert to Free except for you.
3. How to remove restriction and share songs to any device within Family plan?
As you may noticed, even after you subscribed the Premium for Family account, you are still limited to listen to your Spotify songs. It seems impossible to share the songs to any device, such as iPod, Walkman, and others. In fact, this is caused by Spotify's DRM policy. If you want to break the restriction and enjoy your Spotify songs on any player as you want, then you'll have to remove the DRM from Spotify at first place. To help you solve this trouble once and for all, you are suggested to test TunesKit Music Converter for Spotify, a smart Spotify music tool used to download and extract any Spotify songs to popular formats, such as MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, etc. so that you can put them on any device for offline listening. Get the trial version for free as below to see how to convert Spotify songs to MP3 easily.
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To list your concerts on Spotify, you need a concert listed on one of our ticketing partner sites:
- Ticketmaster
- Songkick
- Resident Advisor
- Eventbrite
- AXS
- eplus (Japan only)
Note: We only show virtual events listed on Ticketmaster or Songkick.
Ask your fans to follow you so they’re the first to know when you’re playing.
Go to Spotify for Artists to check all the concerts you have on Spotify, plus the number of followers and listeners you have in each city you’re playing.
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We don’t sell concert tickets, but we do recommend concerts to fans based on where they live, who they follow, and what they listen to.
Concerts are listed in Spotify in the Concerts section of Browse and on artist profiles. To get started, check out How can I list my concerts on Spotify?
Go to Spotify for Artists to check all the concerts you have on Spotify, plus the number of followers and listeners you have in each city you’re playing.
Head to CONCERTS in your Profile in Spotify for Artists to:
- Check out all of the upcoming concert dates we’re currently displaying for you on Spotify.
- See how many followers and listeners you have in each of the cities you’re playing.
- Find out if you have any incorrect or missing concerts, so you or the promoter can let our ticketing partners know.
- Let us know if you have problems with your artist IDs.
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If you haven’t got access to Spotify for Artists yet, get access here.
We use artist IDs to match the concerts we get from our partners with your artist profile on Spotify. Our partners create these IDs to keep track of the artists who sell tickets on their sites.
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When they send us your concerts, they also send us your ID. We match your artist profile on Spotify with your artist ID, so fans on Spotify know where and when you’re playing.
Go to CONCERTS in your Profile in Spotify for Artists to see your artist IDs and confirm they’re correct. If you have a mismatch or other problem, let us know.
In order to appear on Spotify, a concert listing we pull from one of our partners needs to include:
- At least 1 artist name
- A start time
- A venue name
- An event name
If your concert is missing any of this info, it won’t appear on Spotify.
To update the info in your concert listings, you’ll need to reach out directly to the ticketing partner or have the concert promoter contact them.
Using a combination of location and listening data, Spotify displays your concert info to as many of your fans as possible in and near the cities you’re playing.
We also send concert recommendation emails to your followers and others who listen to your music on Spotify.
Tip: Ask fans in all your social media channels to follow you on Spotify! Increasing your followers is the best way to get featured in concert recommendation emails. You can also embed a follow button on your website.
The best way to add a new concert to Spotify is to use Songkick Tourbox. They make it easy to list a show—and once it’s in their system it automatically gets added to ours.
Note: We only show virtual events listed on Ticketmaster or Songkick.
If your concert isn’t displayed within 24 hours after listing it with the partner, try these steps:
- Head to CONCERTS in your Profile in Spotify for Artists and check all your artists IDs are correct. If you see a mismatch, let us know.
- If your artist IDs are correct, click the gear symbol at the top of your list of concerts in Spotify for Artists, then copy and paste your concert URL to check if it’s in our system.
- If your concert isn’t in our system, it’s likely there’s an error on the ticketing partner’s end. You need to reach out to them directly to let them know your concert isn’t appearing on Spotify.
You can! For the festival to appear on your Spotify artist profile, just make sure you're linked to the festival on the ticketing partner site.
A couple of things to bear in mind:
- Festivals are defined as events with 6 or more artists on the bill. If there are fewer than 6 artists, their names, instead of the festival name, will appear as the event title.
- Only the opening day will be listed for a multi-day festival (e.g. A festival that runs Friday to Sunday will only appear as a Friday event).
Concerts are not currently available in the Spotify for Artists app. For more about concerts on Spotify, head here.
Co.Lab events are virtual and in-person events for artists and their teams. You’ll hear from local Spotify representatives and get a personal guide through our artist tools and features.
Head to artists.spotify.com/events and RSVP for an event that interests you.
Attendees are chosen based on a number of factors including location, career stage, and activity on Spotify for Artists. You’ll get a confirmation email if your RSVP is confirmed.
Don’t worry if you don’t get a slot! We’ll throw more Spotify for Artists events in the future. We’ll also share information from each event through our blog and other channels.
On the morning of the event, we’ll send each confirmed attendee a unique link to access the live stream.
Each virtual Co.Lab is ~40-minutes long. Events begin with a live 20-minute interview, followed by a 20-minute Q&A.
You can’t ask questions live, but you can submit a question for our moderator to include at the end of the event (if there’s time).
Yes! We’d love to have you. Email colabevents@spotify.com.