How to Delete Your Spotify Account

Spotify lets you close your account from a dedicated web page. You can recover it within 7 days.

What Spotify keeps after deletion

  • Playlists you made public remain visible to followers until full deletion.
  • Payment records for accounting purposes.

Steps to delete your Spotify account

  1. Cancel Premium first. Otherwise you keep getting billed even after closure.
  2. Visit the close-account page. Go to support.spotify.com/article/close-account and follow the wizard.
  3. Confirm via email. Spotify sends a confirmation link — click within 24 hours.

Gotchas to watch for

  • Closing your account does not delete data Spotify shares with partner labels for royalty reporting.

What deleting your Spotify account doesn't fix

Closing the account stops the flow of new data. It does not retrieve what has already left. Anything Spotify shared with advertising or analytics partners before you deleted stays with those partners, and anything that reached a data broker stays in the broker's database.

That is why people who delete a dozen accounts still find their home address on people-search sites afterwards. Those sites did not get your address from Spotify — they compiled it from public records, marketing lists and each other. Account deletion and broker removal are separate jobs, and doing one does not do the other.

Both are free to do yourself. The opt-out guides on this site cover 45+ brokers step by step, and the deletion steps above cost nothing but time.

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to delete a Spotify account?

5 min. Difficulty: easy. The full step-by-step process is on this page, and the official deletion page is at https://support.spotify.com/us/article/close-account/.

What data does Spotify keep after you delete your account?

Deletion is rarely total. Spotify retains: Playlists you made public remain visible to followers until full deletion.; Payment records for accounting purposes.. That is normal across the industry — most retention is for legal, security or fraud-prevention reasons — but it is worth knowing that "delete" does not mean every trace is gone.

Can you recover a deleted Spotify account?

Assume not. Some services offer a grace period before deletion finalises, and where Spotify does, it is noted in the steps above. Once that window closes the account is gone. Download your data before you start — every major service offers an export, and it takes minutes.

Is deleting my Spotify account enough to protect my privacy?

No, and this is the part most guides skip. Deleting the account stops Spotify from collecting more, but it does not claw back what was already shared with advertisers, analytics partners or data brokers. If your name, address and phone are published on people-search sites, that stays true after the account is gone — those listings have to be removed separately, which you can do yourself for free.

Rather not do this manually?

Every opt-out on this site is free to do yourself. The catch is that brokers re-list you within months, so it is a recurring job rather than a one-off. These services handle the repetition for you:

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