How To Use Spotify if your based in USA or Other Countries
Spotify has of course been in the news a lot lately. However, the Spotify service is still only available to users in certain countries, such as UK, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Spain and France. Thus if your based in the USA the Spotify service is currently not available for you to use, until now.
A few people have been reporting that they have used the following steps to get a Spotify account when they are based in the USA.
1) go to http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
2) enter the following URL: https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
3) Create your account, for UK postcode – check http://www.postcodesearch.org.uk/
Let us know if this still works in your country!
86 Comments
Fail
F*CK YES! Thankyou so much ! Works for me (Australia)
Still works in Australia
it doent work in india does anyone now how to use it in india
Thank you so much! It still works in the US *dances*
it redirects me from https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/ to https://www.spotify.com/en/invitation/ and ask for an invitation number =(
im from Mexico
No seas wey, a mi tambien me reenvia a https://www.spotify.com/en/invitation/
pero lo unico que tienes que hacer es haz clic en donde dice Get Spotify y si te deja sin problema. (aunque lo mas seguro es que ya lo tienes jeje tu post es del 2010 haha)
Sadly all the info in this article is now Irelivent , Spotify is now checking IP addreses and blokking accounts from outside of designated spotify target areas . It was great while it lasted !!!!!! the new spotify exe 0.3.23. has put spotty to sleep for us
Doesn’t work for me in Australia as it still requires an invite to join the beta and knows I’m in Australia.
didn’t t work for me
ended up getting an invite for $17 from http://bundlethemes.com/spotify-invite
This place has some for sale if you want to buy one spotify invite
I bought mine there and it worked like a charm
http://spotify.bigcartel.com/
and it was much more cheaper than 17 dollars lol
Cheers
Well, this is not working anymore. For just $17 I ended up getting invites when I tried the following site:
http://bundlethemes.com/spotify-invite
Hope it helps.
I got my account…but i cant load spotify ? any clue? what can i do ?
Just get one of your friends in Europe to sign up for you.
Now it works for me in Aus
I love Groovshark. Its much more convenient and I don’t imagine there are any geographic restrictions yet.
Works great in Canada. Cheerio!
It works for me!!…Hope it lasts!!…Thanks a billion!!
Oups….:D… From Canada…
Works in the US of A
Works in Canada. As a UK Expat I am very happy. Thank you.
Works in Quebec, Canada !!! Thanks a lot !!
Please help!! I am currently in Canada, I had a Spotify account in Spain, then I left and now I changed my profile putting that I have a UK postcode, it still says that:
Subscription status
Your account can no longer be used from abroad, since the maximum travel time is 14 days for a Spotify Free account. To continue using Spotify from abroad, sign up for Spotify Premium which gives you unlimited travel access.
Does this mean that I should just re-open a new account? Argh!
Thanks so much!
you should pay for premium, then you can have your spotify account on 3 different devices, and play unlimmited abroad of the countries spotify is in.
I used to live in the UK and now living in Luxembourg. Suddenyl spotify isn’t letting me use it anymore let alone sign in! Any tips on getting it working if you already have an account?
Thanks
xxx
Worked for me here in the USA
Works perfecto in Colombia, thank you muchooo!!
Works perfectly in Canada. Took only a couple of minutes to set up.
Many Thanks.
Works perfectly in Australia Thanks!!!
Works in the U.S.!
Works great!
I have just moved in to Canada from Spain… I was really upset when my 14 days period abroad ended… now… Am really happy! Ride on!
Worked perfect in the US, got an invitation code for unlimited access too! Can’t wait to finally try this out, thanks for the short and simple and EFFECTIVE guide.
I am in Canada, worked perfectly. Been wanting to get set up on spotify since leaving the UK, thanks for this
Hey, have been searching for just this thing for quite a while, moved to the US from Sweden about 2 months ago. But I already had an account, and I’ve tried all the options I’ve find to fix it, but nothing seems to work. So, if you already have an account, how can you get it to work?
Works in Australia even today. The hardest part is finding the post code. The tool provided in the link is useless just look up Google Maps and grab from there. Thanks for the great tip, a good proxy will get you around these issues anywhere.
Hi,
Works in Quebec (Canada).
Thanks a lot.
Worked perfect in the US!!! Wow this is awesome, THANKS!
Works here in the Bulgaria
YAY! It works in Denmark
Yay, works beautifully in Switzerland!
Thanks! xx
I had spotify in the UK and when I used it in Canada my free trial ran out. Just used the advice above and it worked, but now Spotify is telling me I only have 20 hours of use left. Any suggestions?
Want Spotify Premium for free? Go to the link below and sign up!
http://www.gratispremium.com/?ref=430254
Sweet, works in Canada… THANKS!!!
Does it tell you you only have 20 hours of Spotify use (in the top right corner)?
Yep, works in Toronto, Canada. JR, yes, there is a timer for the “Open” account. Here’s what the FAQ says:
How much music can I play with Spotify Open?
When you open your account you receive 20 hours listening time – that’s equivalent to listening to 25 albums or 300 tracks EVERY month! You will then receive five additional hours every week from the week after that, at roughly the same time of day as you created your account.
If you do not use all of this listening time, the listening time is saved up to a maximum of 20 hours.
Listening to your own imported local files within Spotify does not use up your listening time.
To play more music you need to subscribe to Spotify Unlimited or Spotify Premium.
Germany is still fine … but not so easy to find proxies to be used.
It only works for 2 weeks in canada… cause you get 2 weeks of mobile spotify with spotify open. And I’m not able to register for spotify premium because it detects the paypal account is canadian… so unless you get someone abroad to register a premium account for you I don’t see how this could work?
yay! still works in Australia !
get a vpn connection that changes your IP address to a Swedish one! it works! for 2 $ a month
Thanks very much, it works a treat. I am soooo happy!!!! Spent all day trying to stump it, it hasn’t failed yet. Its especially good for old jazz and blues recordings. What an age we live in!!! Can’t wait for the premium service to be available in Australia. For now the ads are a small price to pay for the access.
Works from Singapore!
It works in Canada ! Thank you guy!
january 4,2011 works fine
sorry i am in usa
Still working in OZ.. YEWW!
This works in the USA as of January 11, 2011
Works in the Great White North (Canada)
i get the account all set up, but when i open the player it says “your country does not match the one set in your profile”. I’m in usa and used the daveproxy instructions above. is this a common problem?
u need a UK VPN
doesntwork i moved to oz from england . so had all my uk addresses etc …. it work for about 2 weeks then they cut me off
I’m in the US and I followed the above process. It was working great in Dec. until recently. I could not get any music instead I got a notification that the account could only be used outside of the UK for no more than 14 days and now I had to upgrade for “unlimited travel”. 2 upgrades, one for US$ 16.00 or US$7.00 but if using a credit card it must be issued in the country of origin meaning the UK. So not working any more. To bad I found some great music.
The only thing you have to do is to have someone from UK, or where ever your spotify is supposed to be from. Have someone that you know go in there form that country, and then you can use it abroad again.
IT REALLY WORKS, O MY GOSH, THIS IS INSANE, I REALLY LOVE IT, DO IT, DO IT NOW! EVERYONE LOVES IT.
This works great and all, but the whole limited-to-14-days-abroad thing is quite annoying…I’ve read up on two methods to fix it:
A) to use a UK-based SOCKS/HTTPS proxy in Spotify’s preferences, or
B) the [purportedly] easier method, logging into Spotify’s website and changing your country of origin in your profile, thus theoretically resetting your time abroad to 14 days again.
Has anyone tried B to see if it works? If it does, that would be great because it seems to be the easier method; also, I’ve heard running Spotify through proxies is quite slow.
I tried B.. In my account & profile settings i can’t change country, unfortunately.
I just moved from the Uk to AUSTRALIA and this worked just perfect so simple love it thanks so much whoooo
I live in Canada and the process works like a charm. Everything works.
It works in Australia! thanks
Works great in Canada! Thanks you.
working in oz! will hopefully keep working! …thanks pal
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Not working for me (Australia).
Proxy has probably been detected…
I’d say use Overplay VPN (http://www.flashrouters.com/overplay) to do it from the US. They’re VPN has worked best from the 5 or 6 major services I’ve tested.
A Huge thanks!!!!! =D
Yes it’s work here in Quebec
Working in Ontario – Many thanks!
Works just fine in South Africa…no need for an invite…just click on signup and close all the popup adds along the way.
When is it coming to Asia? I wanna listen to some asian songs
Yup still works here in Canada.. thanks.
Work for me!!! Thank you!!
PERU
Well, even if you registered with a ‘spotified’ country’s postal code, the free account will only let you use it in a non-spotified country for something like 14 days; then, it asks for a premium account.
), it no longer lets me access without buying premium… 
I was one of the early registrants (by invitation) in one of these countries and now since I have subsequently used it a while in Germany and am back home in India (over 2 yrs since
Keep getting Invalid ‘client_id’.
So won’t work in Oz
Not functioning in Malaysia, yet…><