Here are a few things you can do right now:
- If you’re still paying for Spotify premium, cancel your subscription. We’ve got instructions (and some suggestions on alternatives) here.
- Don’t use Spotify’s free version either. You don’t need to delete your account. Just close out your apps and don’t open them again until Spotify stops forcing ICE ads into people’s feeds.
- Instead of sharing your Spotify Wrapped this year, share our Wrapped-themed posts calling on others to cancel Spotify. As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they don’t need (and don’t deserve) free advertising on our social feeds. And there’s no reason you can’t post your own list of top songs/artists on social — maybe alongside a message about why you chose not to stream them on Spotify.
- Use this social media moment to have GENTLE, NON-SHAMING conversations with friends about the Spotify boycott. Seriously, no one is going to respond well to judgy DMs when they’re just trying to post something fun about the music they like. So approach with kindness, maybe compliment their music tastes, and then talk about why you’ve decided to stream from other platforms for the time being (one point you can make: Those platforms probably treat their favorite artists much, much better than Spotify does).
- Help us track the growth of this economic campaign by taking our one-question survey.
Psychologists have looked at why people love sharing Spotify Wrapped so much, and the answer is pretty straightforward: We do it because it makes us feel like part of a group and because it’s a form of self-expression.
The good news is, standing in solidarity with immigrant communities by promoting a boycott of Spotify accomplishes both of these things too.
The more of us do it, the more we can bring others along with us.
And we’d argue (humbly, as massive music fans ourselves) this kind of activism says more about what kind of person you are than a colorful list of the songs you streamed most this year.
Spotify ends this year’s Wrapped by telling customers, “all of your listening makes you part of something bigger.” Strategically boycotting Spotify until it stops recruiting for ICE makes you part of something bigger, too. And our numbers are growing all the time.
In solidarity,
Indivisible Team
