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5 Spotify Hacks Every Free User Needs To Know

February 3, 2025

Whether you’re discovering your new favorite song or queuing up the latest episode of the hottest podcasts, Spotify is always innovating to deliver the best experience possible. And our Free users around the world have unprecedented access to the very best of what the platform has to offer: personalized music recommendations, a mobile-friendly data saver mode, the freedom to stream their favorite music and podcasts available on over 2,000 devices, and the ability to share the music they love via social media.

To make the most of the Free music-listening experience on Spotify, we’ve compiled this list of hacks that every Free user needs to know (and some pro tips to help you stay on top of your streaming game).

Follow along with your next listening session

When you find yourself listening to a song and want to follow along—or you just want to figure out what someone is saying—our shareable Lyrics feature is here to help.

With Lyrics, you can cultivate an even deeper connection to the music and artists you love, diving into the meaning behind each song. When listening to a song with available lyrics, users can swipe up from the bottom of the Now Playing screen in the Spotify mobile app to display the track’s lyrics, which will scroll line by line in real time as the song is playing.

Pro tip: With social sharing functionality built right into Lyrics, you can express how you’re feeling and share it with your friends via Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and more.

Discover music that perfectly fits your mood

If you’re looking for the right songs to get you hyped up for a morning workout or focused for your nightly study sessions, daylist has you covered.

A one-of-a-kind playlist that understands and reflects what types of music you like to listen to during particular moments in the day, or on specific days of the week, daylist is available to Free users around the world, regularly updating with different songs and titles, made for every version of you.

Pro tip: When there’s a specific daylist playlist you love, you can make a copy of it and save it by tapping the three-dot menu, scrolling down to “Add to playlist,” then tapping “New playlist.” Then, it will be available to revisit whenever you like.

Give your playlist covers a unique touch

You’ve mastered the art of curating incredible playlists, but if you want them to truly feel “made by you,” you can design your own playlist cover right on Spotify. Available in 65 Spotify markets around the world, this feature lets you personalize your playlist covers with unique images, colors, and text effects, graphic elements that match the distinct vibe of your playlists.

Whether you’re on iOS or Android, just head to the Spotify mobile app (make sure it’s up-to-date) and select a playlist that you personally created (or create a new one) to get started. Then tap the three-dot menu and choose “Create cover art.”

Pro tip: You can only save one custom cover art per playlist at a time, and each new cover you create will override the previous one for that specific playlist.

Revisit your favorite blasts from the past

Whether you’re looking to take a trip down memory lane with one of your all-time favorite songs or you want to rediscover a hit you haven’t thought about in years, you can jump into one of several personalized playlists that will take you back.

Just head to the Made for You hub and let Repeat Rewind bring you back to some of your more recent past favorites, or press play on one of the Your Decades Mixes and let the nostalgia from a particular era wash over you.

Pro tip: If you want to explore more of the biggest hits that you’ve loved over the years, our editorial team has curated playlists to take you further down memory lane, including Throwback Thursday, after school club 🪄, Throwback Jams, y2k, and our Decades hub, full of era-specific playlists rounding up all of the biggest anthems from the 1950s to the 2010s.

Jump outside of your musical comfort zone

Looking for your next favorite song but don’t know where to start? You can expand your own horizons through playlists like Discover Weekly, which offers a weekly dose of personalized recommendations based on your listening history, or you can stay ahead of the curve with Release Radar, which delivers the latest releases from the artists you follow.

Pro tip: Keep up with your favorite artists by navigating to their profile pages and tapping the follow button at the top.

Want to take your listening to the next level? Check out our 5 premium hacks every Spotify user needs to know.

daylist Is Expanding Into New Markets and Languages, So Here Are 3 Tips To Make the Most of It

September 4, 2024

From sunup to sundown, Spotify’s daylist serves up an ever-changing playlist of songs that match your mood as it evolves throughout the day. Since launching a year ago, it has erupted as a fan-favorite feature that listeners keep coming back to. In fact, 70% of daylist users tune in week after week, millions of listeners stream it every day, and it has emerged as one of the most popular Spotify features that drives discovery.

This spring, we expanded daylist in English into 65 additional markets, but there are still listeners around the world eagerly awaiting this one-of-a-kind experience. Today, we’re thrilled to share that daylist will be available globally to both Free and Premium users—and, for the first time ever, supported in the following languages: Arabic, Catalan, French (Canada), French (France), German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), and Turkish.

With this expansion, many users will now be able to see our unique daylist titles in their native languages, from “afrofuturisme funk moderne du mercredi après-midi” (modern funk afrofuturism wednesday afternoon) to “pazartesi sabah etiyopya caz enstrümantal funk” (ethiopian jazz instrumental funk monday morning). Our product team worked closely with our local music and culture experts to infuse the spirit of daylist into each language, ensuring that the feature resonates with new users worldwide.

On devices where Spotify is available, simply search “daylist” to bring up your playlist or head to spotify.com/daylist. You can also find daylist in the Made For You hub. The feature updates multiple times a day, and you can view on the playlist page when your next update will be.

If you’re trying out daylist for the first time—or want a few pro tips to get even more out of it—we’ve got you covered.

How to share your daylist

Since its launch, daylist has proved to be quite the conversation starter. In fact, Wrapped aside, it’s Spotify’s most-shared personalized experience, with millions of shares from users in markets where the playlist is available. Since daylist is all about expressing your individuality, shareability is built into the experience and you can choose from three different sharecard options to upload:

- A changing sharecard with up to four different background graphics depending on the time of day you post your daylist
- A ready-made screenshot of your daylist
- A social media sticker that captures the essence of your daylist

How to make a copy of your daylist

Just because daylist is a playlist that regularly updates doesn’t mean you can’t save the moods that strike the perfect chord. If you’re loving a specific daylist playlist, you can save it to Your Library in three easy steps:

- Tap the three-dot menu on the playlist page.
- Select “Add to other playlist.”
- Tap “New playlist” to save that exact daylist to Your Library.

How to never miss a daylist

As your day in a playlist, daylist helps you understand more about your taste in music. To fully experience all of your niche tastes and ever-changing moods, you can add daylist to Your Library for easy access:

- Tap the three-dot menu on the playlist page.
- Select “Add to Your Library.”

That’s it! Now you can find your daylist at a moment’s notice.

With this expansion, we’re excited to see even more users celebrate their unique musical tastes through daylist. We’ll keep iterating and innovating on this feature to better serve our listeners, creating delightful, personalized experiences all around.

What’s on your daylist? Find out by streaming the playlist here.

Ultimate Passenger Princess Antoni Bumba Shares Her Top Tips for Listening in the Car

November 20, 2023

Drivers in the U.S. spend an average of 60 minutes per day behind the wheel. So whether you’re slogging through the daily commute, ripping through errands, or gearing up for a road trip with friends, you’re going to want the best music, podcasts, and audiobooks to make that time count.

With 100+ million songs, 5+ million podcasts, and over 150,000 audiobooks, Spotify is the ultimate listening companion when you’re on the go. Plus, you can listen to Spotify in the car and effortlessly bring the world’s music along for the ride with our new features like DJ, Jam, and daylist.

Picking precisely what to listen to is a special role, one that often falls to the person in the passenger seat. And our listeners know it: This past year, users have taken to social media to proudly announce their status as a “passenger princess”—the person who, while being chauffeured, also ensures fellow passengers are fed, hydrated, and musically satiated.

They also claimed this title on Spotify. This year, we saw a 300% rise in the number of user-generated “passenger princess” playlists created each month. “Snooze” by SZA and “Paint The Town Red” by Doja Cat were two of the tracks that popped up most frequently.

For the Record talked to Antoni Bumba, creator and self-identified passenger princess, on what it takes to be the best copilot for any road trip.

Why’s it so important to have good music playing in the car?

It does two things. One, it helps us curate the vibe for the location that we’re on the way to or for what type of day we want to have. But it also fills up the empty space. Unless you just want to be listening to your tires run against the road, which is really boring.

Tell us about the role of the passenger princess.

Okay so, I know it’s called the passenger princess, but once the role umbrellas itself into being the DJ, it becomes really hardcore. This is one where the pressure is on you at all times. You have to have what’s gonna play next figured out, because if everyone in the car gets mad at you and wants to take the aux from you, they’re never gonna trust you again.

If the person driving the car is getting us from point A to point B, then the passenger princess is making sure we’re all having a good time. That we’re not all hating this car ride. It seems simple, but you really have to read anyone’s energy. They’re not going to say what they’re in the mood for. You just have to read it on their face, read it in their vibe, and play something that’s gonna be fire.

But the role can also be really chic and cute and fun if you make it that way.

You’re the passenger princess on an epic road trip. What’s on your playlist?

The first thing I’m gonna play is something right in the middle. Something that feels good, maybe some Motown. Then you want to transition quickly into something that’s going to sustain people, someone people are going to want to sing along to. Rihanna is great to put in this category, Megan Thee Stallion, or Doja Cat. We need to get feelings riled up with songs with really enjoyable beats and voices and lyrics that aren’t too demanding.

And then after you’ve done a few songs, screaming lyrics, videotaping your road trip, then you’re going to start talking. And someone is gonna be hungry. Someone is going to want to stop to pee. So you need to have a good filler. This is when all the randoms can be played. If you have a weird demo in your library and it starts playing at this time, good. After you eat your food, you’re driving, you have four hours left. And this space is less about getting excited, and this is where you can start playing lyrical stuff. Not anything necessarily too emotional, but with lyrics that are fun and kitschy.

Then I also have music without lyrics. So good. This is the time when everybody wants to dissociate, wants to forget that we’re all in the car together, look out the window, scroll on their phones. I have a bunch of cool, psychedelic rock, funky music playing. People get sick of that and then we move to things that are a bit more Fantasia.

Then finally, we’re gonna want music that’s going to hype you up for pulling into whatever place you’re about to pull up to.

Do you ever choose a theme?

Location matters. When you’re driving from LA to San Francisco or something—like when I was driving with my friend Victoria and we were going skydiving—you drive past all this scenery. So we had all this chill music playlist that was very reminiscent of California rock ’n’ roll. But then once we got closer to where our location was, it was Nicki Minaj. Full. Blast.

Now on our way back, there is a different vibe. You don’t want to go too hard on the melodies, because you don’t want people to fall asleep, but once you get closer to home, play that new Lana Del Rey. Play “Crystal” by Fleetwood Mac. Songs that make you feel good about pulling in.

What song are you always belting out from the passenger seat?

We were driving through Vancouver and we were singing Céline Dion and Whitney Houston. The first song we were singing by Celine Dion was “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” and then Whitney’s “The Greatest Love of All.” Just big ’80s ballads. Also, Heart. Very ’80s, love, power-hour ballad.

On your channel, you talk about beauty from the passenger seat. Do you have any recs for staying hydrated and comfortable on long trips?

I definitely think that you want to wear something that’s going to be super comfy. Shoes, very comfy. Hair, done up in a way where you don’t have to worry about it. I usually go for a headband to tie my hair back, because if I put my hair in a pony or in a bun and I want to go to sleep, it’s just going to be knocking into the seat. And I always keep a moisturizer with me, maybe some Aquaphor or a moisturizing mist. When it comes to traveling in the car, I think it’s important to sustain beauty, not create it.

Catch Antoni’s heartbreak road trip playlist only on Spotify.

Interior Design Expert Bobby Berk Shares Top Tips for Making Your Living Room an Audio Oasis

November 16, 2023

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As the weather outside becomes more frightful, it’s time to make your living room delightful. So cozy up your home’s vibes by allowing your favorite music or podcasts to filter through the living room. From countless brands of smart speakers to easier-than-ever TV listening, it’s seamless to connect and enjoy audio with congregating family and friends.

Bobby Berk knows a thing or two about cultivating the perfect ambience for a living room. The interior design expert and author is well-known for his stylish and youthful designs and has been one of the “Fab Five” on Netflix’s popular makeover show Queer Eye. This makes Bobby the perfect person for Spotify to partner with to show fans how audio and home design go hand in hand. And while your home decor aesthetic is as unique as your music taste, a few extra tips can go a long way in creating the perfect space for yourself.

For the Record sat down with Bobby to understand more about designing a welcoming living room space, as well as what you’ll find on his perfect music playlist for home entertaining.

What’s the historical function and significance of the living room?

From its beginnings in the late 19th century, the living room was a more formal space in the home used primarily for entertaining guests. It consisted mainly of more-tailored seating and a layout built around conversation. It wasn’t until the mid-20th century that the living room became a more casual space for spending time with family, relaxing, listening to music, or watching TV. The design itself was also adapted to be more about comfort and a sense of coziness.

What are your top three tips for designing a welcoming, comfortable, and functional living room?

First, add seating that looks—and most importantly feels—good. Next, create a layout that encourages connection but is also open. Place your furniture in a natural, conversational grouping. You also want the layout to feel welcoming, so be sure to leave space to enter the room and move through it easily. Finally, bring in soft and cozy materials. Adding pillows, throws, and a soft rug underfoot will create a comfortable living room that you really want to spend time in.

What do you like to listen to when designing and working? How about for hosting?

If I really need to get focused and get things done, I prefer a chill instrumental mix like Focus Flow or Workday Lounge. When designing, I’ll listen to something more upbeat, a pop mix or one of my favorite artists, Rozzi.

My ideal hosting playlist would take you on a journey starting with smooth jazz and a cocktail lounge vibe. Then I would move into some pop classics and top 40 hits, get things a bit more energized, and then finish things off with more relaxed, ambient tunes.

How do acoustics, sound, and entertainment fit into your living room concepts?

I’m always thinking about how someone will use a space when designing, and that definitely includes entertainment and sound. You don’t want a living room to be an echo chamber, so I bring in materials like a rug, upholstery, and curtains to soften things and improve acoustics.

What’s your go-to smart speaker?

I have a number of Sonos speakers throughout my home, and I love that I can easily connect Spotify to just one speaker—like, if I want to sing in the shower, the portable speaker if I’m outdoors, or the whole house if I’m entertaining.

Spotify’s daylist provides you with a custom playlist multiple times per day depending on what you listen to around the clock. What are you loving about the feature so far?

My mood definitely changes throughout the day, so it’s nice to have a playlist that changes along with it! In the morning, I have a mix that gets me motivated and focused for the day, a high-energy workout mix for the afternoon, and something a bit more chill for unwinding at the end of the day.

Whether it’s a Feel Good Morning Niche Mix for those who love a fresh, light, and airy aesthetic or a warm pumpkin spice evening daylist for those channeling a cozy winter atmosphere on the couch, Spotify’s personalized playlists can help you feel right at home.

Coach Sydney Carter Breaks Down Her Biggest Style Inspirations, the Joys of Owning a Dog, and the Importance of Being Yourself

October 30, 2023

When it comes to the most-loved features on Spotify, personalization tops many users’ lists. Through Spotify playlists like Discover Weekly and Daylist, editorially curated standouts like Fresh Finds, and new playlist-enhancing features like Smart Shuffle and Jam, we love helping listeners discover something new. And our listeners’ thirst for auditory adventures continues to grow, with nearly 2 billion music discoveries happening on Spotify daily.

Creators around the world also love discovery and turn on their fans to favorite playlists, products, and people. In For the Record’s ongoing Discovery Monday series, we connect with content creators and pick their brains about recent finds, whether it’s new music, podcasts, TV, food, beauty, technology, or fashion.

This month, we’re talking to basketball coach extraordinaire Sydney Carter. After reaching the highest levels of the game as a player, Sydney is now making a name for herself as one of the best-dressed coaches in women’s basketball. But more than just helping her teams succeed on the court, Sydney has become a fierce advocate for gender equality and representation in sports and life.

What’s your favorite way to discover new music on Spotify?

I’m starting to get hip to a lot of things because these young kids, they’re listening to all this type of stuff and I’m still stuck on ’90s R&B like Aaliyah. But I typically like to search for an artist, find a playlist, and then go from there. And then you’ll have different artists in that same genre that are in the mix, so I get into new stuff by listening on shuffle. That’s the easiest way for people like me.

Are there any new podcasts that you’ve listened to or discovered lately?

I love Amanda Seales’ podcast Small Doses. And then I love the podcast Don’t Call Me White Girl. Mona, the host of DCMWG, just makes me laugh. She talks about things you hear in social media and just puts her own thing on it, which I love.

Are you an audiobooks fan? What’s your favorite way to listen?

During the early part of the pandemic, I got into listening to audiobooks. There was something about that experience of listening to a book that was working for me. So I would do it when I would work out. I was big on riding my bike during COVID. I was at home all day, and so instead of listening to music the whole time, I was also feeding myself with information.

As you’ve evolved from player to coach you’ve also grown into a prominent voice for women’s empowerment for your social media followers. Do you have a mantra or mentality for staying true to yourself and your passions as your journey continues?

I mean, I always like to say that representation matters. That’s my whole thing. I never intended for any of this to happen. I grew up in a time where we didn’t have social media, so it was never like, “Okay, let me do this so I can go viral.” People my age don’t immediately think about doing things to go viral.

There’s so many young women that I’ve seen over the years who are simply not comfortable being themselves. They’re worried about what people think. They’re worried about what social media comments will say. And so a lot of people have just told me, “You make me feel like I can do anything.”

And it doesn’t even have to do with basketball or fashion. They just think they can do anything by looking at me. So I’m very grateful for that.

What is most rewarding about your work helping women college athletes progress on and off the court?

Every day, I get to help a young woman get closer to living out her dreams, whether that’s pursuing a degree or playing basketball. And so the passion that I have for coaching stems from knowing that when I come across a young woman or a young individual, I know that I’m going to do whatever it takes to help them succeed. Or if we’re on the basketball court, I’m going to be able to help them and provide them with the tools they need. And so when you see a kid whose life you were able to touch, and then they go off and they go do things, there’s nothing better than that.

When you’re seeking something new, what tools or resources do you use?

Typically when I’m thinking about just new ways to be myself or just other ideas that I’m trying to come up with, I’ll find inspiration from Google, or social media, or somewhere else and think of how I can make it me. I’ve just gotten to a point where I don’t care if no one else likes what I’m into. I don’t care if someone else thinks this idea is completely insane. If I like something, it’s simply because I like it.

When it comes to fashion, you’re well-known for your sideline looks. How did you become interested in that world?

My passion for fashion started when I was a kid, and there’s a long history of me taking pride in how I look. I grew up in a family of seven kids. And so I grew up seeing my sisters be super dainty and everything, but I was a little rough around the edges. I love playing basketball, but I always wanted to be super prissy. If you ask me, my sisters and my mom were fashion queens. My mom was wearing the high-waist pants before we were, and she got me my first pair of boots when I was in the fourth grade, and I wore them every day. That’s why my family calls me “Boots” now.

And then even when I went on to college, people always knew I was going to come out with something that ain’t nobody seen before. And I might not have had all the money or anything like that, but I was going to find a way to at least find a couple of pieces that worked for me.

Did that change at all once you started coaching?

When I started working under the coach that I played for in college, he was always like, “You wear what you want to wear. You don’t let anybody tell you that this is too much or this is extra.” He was like, “Just be yourself.” I felt empowered by that and we actually started dressing up during COVID when all the other coaches were wearing quarter-zip sweatshirts and khaki pants. He was like, “We ain’t doing that. I don’t care if it’s just me and you on the sidelines, we’re going to look nice.” And so it was me and him dressing up to the nines, and it’s what I’m comfortable in. I feel like I’m putting my best foot forward for our kids if I’m looking my best.

What’s something new that you’ve discovered lately and fallen in love with?

I’ve always loved animals and I just got a dog. She’s about to be eight months old. So I am opening my eyes to the fact that my dog is not just a dog to me. She’s like a human being. And so I think I’m always searching for clothes and all types of toys for her.

And this is not necessarily just about her, but I’m at a point where I’m truly growing up and thinking about what’s next in life, and about having kids in the picture. My family, my sisters are having kids left and right and everybody’s looking at me like, “What you doing?” So I’m really starting to think about solidifying the life that I want and doing all the things that I’m doing with fashion, with my job, with a new animal. So yeah, I think that I’m just discovering all of the blessings of life in itself.

Stay up on Sydney’s courtside couture by following her on Instagram.

Spotify Reports Third Quarter 2023 Earnings

October 24, 2023

Today, we announced our third quarter 2023 performance. The business delivered strong results in Q3 as all of our key indicators exceeded guidance and we returned to profitability.

Monthly Active Users were up 26% to 574 million and 2 million ahead of guidance. This represents our second largest Q3 net addition performance in history.
Subscribers grew 16% Y/Y to 226 million. Net additions of 6 million were 2 million ahead of guidance.
Total Revenue grew 11% Y/Y to €3.4 billion, exceeding guidance.
Gross Margin finished above guidance at 26.4%.
Spotify returned to profitability, reporting Operating Income of €32 million for the quarter.

In addition, we unveiled new personalized experiences for users and tools for creators:

Interested in hearing more? Click here to review the full earnings release and listen to the webcast Q&A on our Investor Relations site here.

Click below to check out a sizzle reel of audio trailers from a few of our recent original and exclusive podcasts and audiobook offerings.

Get Fresh Music Sunup to Sundown With daylist, Your Ever-Changing Spotify Playlist

September 12, 2023

Throughout the day, your mood changes, and so does the music you listen to. Last night might have been a windows down, thrillwave monday evening, while this moment is more of a ’90s rave rainforest late night. The point is, you’re ever-changing, and your playlists should be too.

Say hello to daylist, your day in a playlist. This new, one-of-a-kind playlist on Spotify ebbs and flows with unique vibes, bringing together the niche music and microgenres you usually listen to during particular moments in the day or on specific days of the week. It updates frequently between sunup and sundown with a series of highly specific playlists made for every version of you. It’s hyper-personalized, dynamic, and playful as it reflects what you want to be listening to right now.

You’ll get new tracks at every update, plus a new title that sets the mood of your daylist. With relatable titles including thrillwave, happy dance, pumpkin spice, and more, the playlist helps you understand more about your taste in music—and express your unique audio identity.