diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 20cfdfe..7b81605 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ setup(
     author_email="paul@echonest.com",
     url='http://spotipy.readthedocs.org/',
     install_requires=[
-        'requests>=1.0',
+        'requests>=2.3.0',
         'six>=1.10.0',
     ],
     license='LICENSE.txt',