Spotify increased subscription prices across France on Monday (June 2), marking the second price adjustment in the country within 13 months.
A company spokesperson reportedly confirmed to Billboard that individual Premium prices in France rose 9.2% to €12.14 ($13.81 at the current exchange rate) from €11.12 ($12.65)
Spotify France’s website already reflected the change. France last saw a price rise from Spotify in May 2024 following the country’s implementation of a streaming tax requiring platforms with annual revenue exceeding €20 million ($22.9 million) to pay an additional 1.2% music streaming tax.
Family plans also climbed to €21.24 ($24.15), while duo subscriptions increased to €17.20 ($19.56) and student rates reached €7.07 ($8.04).
France is the world’s sixth-largest music market, according to IFPI’s 2025 Global Music Report.
The adjustment follows price hikes in neighboring European countries. In April, Spotify quietly raised prices in Belgium. Individual plans there rose 9% to €11.99 ($13.70) per month from €10.99 ($12.55).
In the Netherlands and Luxembourg, an individual subscription now costs €12.99 ($14.84), up 18% from €10.99.
The price hikes in France follow a report by the Financial Times in April about Spotify’s plans to implement price hikes equivalent to about €1 ($1.14) on monthly individual subscriptions throughout Europe and Latin America as early as June.
The FT at the time said the changes come as music executives have long pushed for streaming platforms to raise their prices, arguing that subscription costs have failed to keep pace with inflation while offering cheaper rates compared to video streaming services like Netflix or Disney+.
As MBW pointed out in a January article, Netflix’s latest price increase in the US further widened the price gap between the video streaming giant and Spotify. Netflix’s Standard tier now costs US users approximately $72 more per year than Spotify’s individual Premium (at $11.99 per month).
In Europe, the price of a Spotify subscription still varies. German, Spanish and Italian subscribers continue paying €10.99, while Portuguese users pay €7.99 ($9.13), Billboard noted.
Nordic markets show mixed subscription prices, with Swedish subscribers paying 119 kronor ($12.37) and Norwegians charged 129 kroner ($12.70). Denmark subscribers pay more at 109 kroner ($16.62).
Speaking to analysts during SPOT’s Q1 earnings call in April, Spotify Chief Business Officer Alex Norstrom said: “As we’ve said many times before, prices are now, price increases are now part of our toolbox.”
“And we take steps to balance the value to price ratio over time by adding value and then we adjust the price when it makes sense for the market.”
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek described price increases a “another leg to the stool” in growing the company’s revenue.
“And we started showing that there was another leg to the stool, which was price increases and then our revenue growth then increased as a consequence. And what was interesting back then, the revenue growth was just not entirely a function of price increases, but it was actually a function of price increases and much higher subscriber growth than people expected in the past as well.”
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