Is Spotify legal and free? We clarify

Spotify is one of the largest and most popular music streaming services in the world, but this is not necessarily synonymous with legal. In this article, we reveal whether you are on the safe side by law when listening to songs via Spotify and whether the service is really free.

Is Spotify legal? That is the legal situation

The good news in advance: Spotify is completely legal. The music streaming service has entered into an agreement with GEMA and all other rights holders and is therefore authorized to stream the songs.

• So Spotify pays for the music rights of the individual artists. So you can sit back and relax and enjoy the music.
• The extent to which the music streaming service is chargeable and how expensive the music fun becomes depends on your personal requirements:

Free Spotify - the different music tariffs

Spotify offers a total of four different tariffs that cause different costs.

• The cheapest tariff is Free. As the name suggests, there are no costs. But it can take your nerves because the sound quality is only 128 kbps and advertising is played between the songs.
• The Spotify Premium tariff costs you around 10 euros per month. The sound quality is 320 kbps and you are spared from advertising. You can also listen to the songs offline.
• The student tariff includes the same advantages as the premium tariff, but only costs around 5 euros per month. To be able to use the benefits for one year, you must identify yourself as a student.
• The Family tariff from Spotify costs around 15 euros. It includes the same conditions as the premium service. The only exception: with the Spotify Family tariff, five other family members can use the music streaming service free of charge in addition to the main subscriber.
• Tip: You can test Spotify's premium offers for one month free of charge. Afterwards there is always a notice period of one month.

Didn't the offer convince you? Then it's best to take a look at one of the many alternatives to Spotify.