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Spotify offers Premium subscribers a feature called AI Playlist, which generates a personalized playlist from a free-text prompt describing a mood, scenario, or feeling. A user can type something like "songs for a rainy Sunday morning" and receive a curated set of tracks matched to that prompt and their listening history. In December 2025, Spotify began testing an evolution called Prompted Playlist, which accepts longer, more detailed prompts and draws on a user's full listening history back to the day they joined.

Details

Spotify launched AI Playlist in beta in April 2024 for Premium users on Android and iOS in the UK and Australia. In September 2024, the feature expanded to the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, still in beta. In December 2025, Spotify began testing a follow-on feature, Prompted Playlist, with Premium users in New Zealand; it expanded to the US and Canada in January 2026. Prompted Playlist accepts longer, more conversational prompts, draws on a user's full listening history since joining, factors in real-time music trends, and lets users set daily or weekly refresh schedules, with each song accompanied by a brief explanation of why it was included. Co-President Gustav Söderström described the feature as giving users the power to steer the algorithm.

Products affected

Spotify Premium

Sources & Evidence

News Article

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/spotify-brings-ai-powered-prompted-playlists-to-the-u-s-and-canada/

News Article

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-09-24/ai-playlist-expanding-usa-canada-ireland-new-zealand/

News Article

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-12-10/spotify-prompted-playlists-algorithm-gustav-soderstrom/

News Article

Spotify tests more personalized, AI-powered ‘Prompted Playlists’

TechCrunch·Dec 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/spotify-tests-more-personalized-ai-powered-prompted-playlists/

Company Disclosure

Company DisclosureVerified

Prompted Playlist in Beta Coming to Premium Listeners in More Markets

Spotify Newsroom·Jan 2026

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-01-22/prompted-playlists-expansion/

Company DisclosureVerified

You’re in Control: Spotify Lets You Steer the Algorithm

Spotify Newsroom·Dec 2025

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-04-07/spotify-premium-users-can-now-turn-any-idea-into-a-personalized-playlist-with-ai-playlist-in-beta/

Company DisclosureVerified

Spotify Premium Users Can Now Turn Any Idea Into a Personalized Playlist With AI Playlist in Beta

Spotify Newsroom·Apr 2024

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-04-07/spotify-premium-users-can-now-turn-any-idea-into-a-personalized-playlist-with-ai-playlist-in-beta/

Cite this record

Trace Foundation. (2026). Spotify: Spotify offers Premium subscribers a feature called AI Playlist, which generates a personalized playlist from a free-text prompt describing a mood, scenario, or feeling. A user can type something like "songs for a rainy Sunday morning" and receive a curated set of tracks matched to that prompt and their listening history. In December 2025, Spotify began testing an evolution called Prompted Playlist, which accepts longer, more detailed prompts and draws on a user's full listening history back to the day they joined (data as of 2026-05-12) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/c0e4e174-d9ff-462c-8135-dc9a44c41b42. Accessed October 12, 2026.

Stable link: https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/c0e4e174-d9ff-462c-8135-dc9a44c41b42
Data as of: May 12, 2026
Last verified: March 24, 2026

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Other practices by Spotify

OtherSpotify has been accused of filling its own playlists with music from pseudonymous "ghost artists" — tracks commissioned at lower royalty rates — to reduce the royalties it pays out on popular ambient and focus playlists.OtherIn October 2025, Spotify announced a formal partnership with all three major record labels (Universal, Sony, Warner) plus Merlin and Believe to develop AI music tools that compensate artists — and disclosed it is building its own generative AI research lab.OtherSpotify uses AI tools to help screen job applications and match current employees with internal opportunities, though it discloses that AI assists rather than replaces human hiring decisions.

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