How to Set or Change Your Country on SoundCloud

"Country" can mean a few different things on SoundCloud, and mixing them up is why people get stuck. The one most listeners and artists actually want is the location on your profile — the city and country shown under your name. You can set that to any value you like in a couple of clicks. This guide covers how to do it, plus how profile location differs from region availability and app-store billing country, so you change the right thing.

How to set or change your profile country

Your profile location is a display field — great for telling fans and promoters where you're based. Here's how to edit it on the desktop site, which is the most reliable place:

1. Sign in to soundcloud.com and open your profile page.
2. Click the small pencil (edit) icon just below your header image to open the profile editor.
3. Find the city and country location fields and type in the value you want.
4. Click Save changes. Your new location shows on your profile straight away.

The same editor is where you update your display name, bio, and links, so it's worth filling everything in while you're there — a complete profile also helps if you're working toward getting verified.

What profile country does not change

Setting your profile location is purely cosmetic. It won't unlock region-restricted content or change your billing — those are separate systems:

• It doesn't bypass geo-restrictions. Some tracks or the service itself may be blocked in certain regions based on your actual internet location, not the country typed on your profile.
• It doesn't change your pricing or store region. Subscription pricing and availability follow the account you pay with (Apple, Google, or SoundCloud), not your profile field.

"SoundCloud isn't available in your country"

If you're seeing an availability or region message, that's tied to your real-world location (your IP address), not your profile country. Changing the profile field won't fix it. Availability is decided by SoundCloud and by rights holders, and some individual tracks are limited to certain territories by the artist or label. Respect those restrictions and any local laws; a track blocked in your region generally means the rights holder chose to limit it there.

If a specific song simply won't play and you just want the audio you're entitled to, a straightforward option is to grab it with SoundsDown or the SoundCloud to MP3 tool — for public tracks you have the right to save.

For artists: setting a track's territory

There's one more "country" setting worth knowing if you upload music. By default a track you upload is available worldwide, but SoundCloud lets artists change a track's availability by territory. That's a per-track control in your upload/track settings — separate from your profile location — useful when a release is only licensed for certain countries.

Frequently asked questions

Can I put any country on my SoundCloud profile?

Yes — the location field is free text you set yourself, so you can enter any city and country you want. It's a display label for your audience.

Will changing my profile country unlock blocked tracks?

No. Region blocks are based on your actual internet location and the rights holder's settings, not the country shown on your profile.

Where do I change the country I'm billed in?

Billing region follows the account you pay through. If you subscribed via Apple or Google, your store account's country controls pricing — you'd change it in Apple or Google settings, subject to their rules.

I can't find the location field on mobile.

Editing your profile is most reliable on the desktop website. Log in through a browser, open your profile, and click the pencil icon below your header to reach the location fields.

The bottom line

To set a custom country on SoundCloud, edit your profile (the pencil icon below your header) and type your city and country into the location fields. Just remember it's a display setting — it won't lift region blocks or change billing, which are governed by your real location and your payment account. Artists can also control availability per track from the upload settings.