diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c2652548..dad603eb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Pygments>=2.0,<2.1
-simplejson==3.1.2
 python-dateutil>=2.4,<2.5
 requests==2.2.1
 sqlparse==0.1.11
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4750357e..88bbd13f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
     install_requires= [
         'Django',
         'Pygments',
-        'simplejson',
         'python-dateutil',
         'requests',
         'sqlparse',