It turns out that it’s possible to make up to $600 monthly per account this way. Spotify doesnt allow to login Spotify account the same device repeatedly. So someone got control of my Spotify account, and was using it to play their own ‘music’ on repeat to extract royalties from the system. Sign Out Spotify from All the Devices and Sign In Again. Click Sign Out Everywhere and confirm it by clicking OK. Log into your account and select Account Overview on the left side of the screen. To do this: Open your browser and navigate to Spotify’s official website. But… it’s possible to purchase stolen premium accounts on the black market, making the scheme profitable almost immediately. Just like other mainstream apps, Spotify also has an option to sign out your account from all connected devices and platforms. If each stream is worth $0.007 a click, the fraudster only needs 1,429 streams to make their $10 subscription fee back, at which point additional clicks are pure profit. Months after this happened and I had forgotten all about it, I read this article about Spotify’s royalties model which revealed a motive:Īll a fraudster has to do is set up a fake artist account with fake music, and then they can use bots to generate clicks for their pretend artist. Surely no one hates ads so much that they would hack into someone else’s account to get rid of them rather than paying the monthly fee?

I did some research and it turns out this is a common problem.

This morning Spotify logged me out automatically. But why would anyone want to hack into my Spotify Premium account? Spotify automatically logged out, can’t log back in.

Logged out of spotify