diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyechonest/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyechonest/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c1a8766528d9..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyechonest/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchPypi,
-  isPy3k,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pyechonest";
-  version = "9.0.0";
-  format = "setuptools";
-  disabled = isPy3k;
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "1da4b3b8b457232a7eb35b59a48390b3c208759b01d596acaa71e6a172b40495";
-  };
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Tap into The Echo Nest's Musical Brain for the best music search, information, recommendations and remix tools on the web";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/echonest/pyechonest";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index cb4854915657..2248e5d24a1d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   pycontracts = throw "pycontracts has been removed, since upstream is no longer active and it is broken on modern Python versions."; # added 2024-08-09
   pydns = py3dns; # added 2024-10-25
   pydrive = throw "pydrive is broken and deprecated and has been replaced with pydrive2."; # added 2022-06-01
+  pyechonest = throw "pyechonest was removed because it was broken and unmaintained"; # added 2025-08-26
   pyephember = throw "pyephember was removed because Home Assistant switched to pyephember2"; # added 2025-05-07
   pyezviz = throw "pyeziz has been removed in favor of pyevizapi, where development continues"; # added 2025-06-11
   pyjet = throw "pyjet is deprecated, use fastjet instead"; # added 2023-05-10
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 1933dcc869dc..9f9120dca304 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -12771,8 +12771,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   pyecharts = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyecharts { };
 
-  pyechonest = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyechonest { };
-
   pyeclib = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyeclib { };
 
   pyecoforest = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyecoforest { };