diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d42cf1d..de1c5e4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Changed
 
  - Allow session keepalive
+ - Bump requests to 2.20.0
 
 ## [2.6.1] - 2020-01-13
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 708dccd..6ef1b3b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 mock==2.0.0
-requests==2.3.0
+requests==2.20.0
 six==1.10.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b1929c7..e45c18e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ setup(
     author_email="paul@echonest.com",
     url='http://spotipy.readthedocs.org/',
     install_requires=[
-        'requests>=2.3.0',
+        'requests>=2.20.0',
         'six>=1.10.0',
     ],
     license='LICENSE.md',