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Put Your Music Knowledge to the Test With Spotify’s Music Quiz

October 6, 2026

Earlier this year, we gave ARMY the chance to put their BTS knowledge to the test with Spotify’s first Music Quiz. Now, we’re bringing the experience to even more fans.

Starting today, Music Quiz is rolling out across 11 countries with quizzes for more than 2,000 artists, giving Premium listeners a new way to test what they know about the artists and music they love.

Fans can test their knowledge through music trivia, album cover art reveals, and see if they can name that song from an audio track preview spanning an artist’s music catalog, career milestones, and defining moments. Then, they can see how well they scored and share their results with friends.

Here’s how it works:

1. Update your Spotify app. Make sure you’re on the latest version of Spotify.
2. Find Music Quiz. Play a track from a participating artist, then scroll down in the Now Playing view to find the Music Quiz card.
3. Put your knowledge to the test. Tap to start answering questions about the artist and their music.
4. See how you did. Finish the quiz to reveal your score.
5. Share your results. Show off your music knowledge and challenge your friends to see how they stack up.

Music Quiz is beginning to roll out to Premium users 18+ in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India, Nigeria, South Africa, and Indonesia. Quizzes for select artists are in English at launch with more artists, languages, and markets to come. We’re rolling this out gradually, so it may not show up for every artist or every listener right away.

Whether you’re a diehard fan who knows every lyric, deep cut, and career milestone or you just want to learn more, keep an eye out for Music Quiz the next time you’re listening to one of your favorite artists.

Spotify’s Managed Accounts Help More Families Enjoy Listening Together

October 2, 2026

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This week, Spotify brought together parents, kids, creators, and friends in New York City for a song-filled afternoon built around music and family. Guests posed on a stoop decked out with musical instruments, flipped through record stacks, and made their own merch at a DIY T-shirt station. Families gathered at picnic tables over pizza and ice cream, and the young musicians of School of Rock closed things out with a high-energy set. The day was a reminder of the joys of listening together.

Because at Spotify, we know that music discovery and family listening often go hand in hand: 94% of our users count on us to discover new music and artists, and more than half share what they’re listening to with their children. We want to give young listeners a place to explore music independently, which is why we’ve expanded access to our managed accounts for young listeners so now any parent on any Spotify plan can create a free managed account for young listeners. Managed accounts give young people under 13 years old their own age-appropriate space to explore music, regardless of their subscription type. They also offer enhanced controls so parents can guide and shape what music young listeners can discover, from turning off explicit content and hiding video to managing the playback of specific songs or artists. (For families with kids who aren’t quite ready for their own managed accounts, our new kids toggle helps parents keep children’s listening separate.)

How to Use Our Taste Profile Feature to Shape Your Spotify Homepage

September 23, 2026

Spotify has always been built around your taste, and now we’re bringing our latest advances in personalization to more listeners. Following initial testing in New Zealand earlier this year, we’re rolling out Taste Profile (Beta) to Premium listeners ages 18 and older in the U.S.

Taste Profile gives you more control over your recommendations, whether you want to explore beyond your usual interests or fine-tune what you already love. For the first time, you can see Spotify’s brief interpretation of your taste across music, podcasts, and audiobooks. But Taste Profile isn’t just about getting a sense for how Spotify understands your interests—you’ll also be able to directly shape what gets recommended next on your Home feed. Your notes act as gentle guidance, steering your Home feed toward music, podcasts, and audiobooks you’ll be excited to discover and away from content that no longer fits your taste.

Here are three easy ways to shape your Taste Profile:

- Explore a new music genre or era: Tell Spotify what you’re curious about, whether it’s ’90s alt-rock, modern indie pop, or something completely new. Taste Profile will use that input to shape recommendations in your Home feed.
- Shape what you see: Looking for energizing music to start your day? Tell Spotify what fits your life right now, and your Home feed will start adapting to match. Tell Spotify what you want more of. Tell it what you’re done with. Home follows your lead.
- Get more of the podcasts and audiobooks you love: Tell Spotify what topics interest you—like tech, history, or art—and Home will start surfacing more related podcasts and audiobooks.

How to view and adjust your Taste Profile

If you’re a Premium listener age 18 or older in the U.S. or New Zealand, you can access your Taste Profile in the Spotify mobile app:

1. Tap your profile picture and select Taste Profile.
2. Explore how Spotify understands your taste across music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
3. Under Tell us more, enter what you’d like to adjust and tap to send your message.

Changes typically appear within a few hours and you can edit or delete your notes whenever you want. You can leave your Taste Profile as is and enjoy Spotify as usual, or update it whenever your interests, tastes, or listening goals change.

Taste Profile builds on Spotify’s momentum in giving listeners more control over the recommendations they receive. We’ve seen strong engagement with features like Exclude from Taste Profile, which lets listeners exclude a specific track or playlist from their recommendations, and more recently, the ability for parents to keep kids and family music from influencing their algorithm.

Reclaim Your Wrapped: You Can Now Control Whether Kids and Family Music Shapes Your Recommendations

September 15, 2026

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Parents love using Spotify to play music for their families. But parents don’t always share the same taste as their young children—and playing music for your kids shouldn’t have to affect your own recommendations. (If your Wrapped is full of the singing princesses you played for the family, you know what we’re talking about.)

Starting today, we’re rolling out a new toggle in your settings that lets you exclude kids and family music from your taste profile, so those streams no longer shape your recommendations. This includes, for example, the songs you play on repeat from your kids’ favorite animated movies, theme songs from family TV shows, nursery rhymes, and more.

When you turn this setting off, you can still search for, listen to, and build playlists of kids and family music, but those streams won’t affect what Spotify suggests for you. That means experiences like Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, and Wrapped more accurately reflect your taste. And yes, it applies retroactively, so kids music you’ve already listened to won’t count toward your Wrapped top song or artist, for example.

This update is the latest step in our ongoing efforts to give parents and guardians more control over how they and their kids listen. It builds on our existing tools, like the ability to exclude specific tracks or playlists from your taste profile, and works hand-in-hand with our recently expanded managed accounts for young listeners.

Here’s a quick look at how these features work together:

- The new toggle is a one-tap feature rolling out globally on mobile to Free and Premium users. It’s set to include kids and family music in your taste profile by default, but you can turn it off anytime. Doing so quickly removes the influence of listening to kids and family music on your recommendations, keeping them focused on your taste. So you can play kid-friendly tunes when your children are around, like on a road trip or at bedtime, without letting those songs shape what you hear next.
- Managed accounts give listeners 13 and under (or the region-equivalent age) a space to discover music on their own, with parental controls that can be adjusted as they grow. Available to parents and guardians on any plan in many countries, managed accounts give kids their own music library and year-end Wrapped experience.

Spotify Gets More Personal With Playlist Notes

August 17, 2026

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A great playlist does more than line up songs: it sets a mood, reflects a point of view, tells a story.

We keep giving playlist makers more ways to tell that story, from custom cover art and playlist descriptions to tools for customizing transitions between tracks. Today, we’re introducing Playlist Notes, a new way to add your thoughts and context right inside the playlists you make.

Our globe-spanning team of editors will use this new feature—which grew out of a concept called User Notes—to share the thinking behind their picks on some of Spotify’s biggest playlists, while listeners can add their own notes to playlists they create or collaborate on.

Go behind the picks with Spotify’s editors

With Playlist Notes, editors share why a track matters, what makes it culturally relevant, or why it belongs in that particular playlist. You can also get to know the people behind the playlists through Editor Profiles. Each profile features an editor’s top tracks and albums, along with the playlists they contribute to.

Playlist Notes from editors and Editor Profiles are currently rolling out to Free and Premium users ages 16 and older in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. To start, you’ll find notes in Today’s Top Hits, RapCaviar, Hot Country, All New Pop, mint, and Fresh Finds Hip-Hop.

Tap Notes at the top of participating playlists to start exploring. To visit an Editor Profile, tap an editor’s name alongside a note or at the top of the playlist.

You’ll also see notes in Now Playing, even when you’re listening to a song outside the playlist where the note originated.

Bring more of yourself to your playlists

Of course, our editors aren’t the only ones with stories to tell. On mobile, you can add your own notes to the tracks, podcast episodes, and audiobooks you’ve added to your playlists. Capture a memory, share a recommendation, or explain why a pick made the cut.

Anyone who can view your playlist can also see your notes, with your name linking to your profile. Playlist Notes, like everything shared on Spotify, must follow our Platform Rules and Terms of Use.

How to add a note

Playlist Notes on user-curated playlists are currently rolling out on iOS and Android in more than 100 markets globally. Availability may differ from editors’ Playlist Notes.

1. Open a playlist you own or collaborate on.
2. Tap the three dots (…) next to a track, podcast episode, or audiobook you’ve added to the playlist.
3. Select Add note.
4. Enter your note, then tap Save.

From the way songs flow together to the stories behind each pick, your playlists just got more personal. Update your app to get the latest features as they roll out.

How Reserved by Spotify Works: A Step-by-Step Guide

June 18, 2026

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Big news for all the fans who know every lyric and never miss a show: Reserved by Spotify is here to help you get tickets.

Reserved goes live today in the U.S. for eligible Spotify Premium subscribers (ages 18+). Reserved by Spotify launches in partnership with Live Nation, and powered by Ticketmaster, starting with a slate of exciting artist tours this week and expanding from there.

Here’s how it works.

Who gets an offer

With Reserved, we identify an artist’s most dedicated fans and hold two tour tickets for them to purchase before the general sale goes live. Eligibility is based on a wide range of signals like streams, saves, and shares, as well as location, to make sure offers reach fans who are likely to attend.

We don’t share every detail of how it works to avoid encouraging anyone to engage strategically rather than genuinely. But what we can say is that Reserved is designed to reward active fan engagement.

Step 1: You get the heads-up.

When you’re eligible, your Reserved offer will be waiting for you right on your Spotify Home screen. We’ll notify you by email, push notification, and in “Your Updates.” To make sure you don’t miss it, keep your notifications turned on for live concerts and events, keep your app updated, and set your location in your Live Events feed.

You can also find your offer across various places in the app, including:

- Search
- The artist’s page
- Your Live Events feed
- The Now Playing view

Tap the offer to see available tour dates, when your Reserved window will open, and to set a reminder so you don’t miss it.

Step 2: Your Reserved window opens. Claim your tickets.

When your Reserved window opens, tap “Buy now” to choose up to two tickets for a Reserved-eligible date on the tour.

Your window is typically around a day, with two tickets to the tour held for you to purchase at any point throughout that time. That said, to get the specific date, location, and seats you prefer, we recommend purchasing as soon as you know which show you want to attend.

We designed Reserved to give you options, so you can buy tickets for any eligible date on the tour, not just the show closest to you. Reserved allocations include a range of seating and prices, and specific availability varies by show.

Step 3: Complete your purchase.

Once you’ve selected your tickets, you’ll be directed to Ticketmaster to complete checkout. If prompted, connect your Spotify account to Ticketmaster so we can verify your Reserved access and unlock your tickets. Choose up to two seats, add your payment info, and confirm.

For some high-demand shows, you may enter a queue before reaching the ticket selection page. No matter what, two tickets on the tour will be held for you throughout your entire on-sale window. Each show has its own availability, so if you reach the end of a queue and your preferred seats are sold out, you’ll still have the opportunity to purchase other tickets.

Pro tip: Connect your Spotify account to Ticketmaster ahead of time for faster checkout.

After the window closes

Unclaimed Reserved tickets become available to the next most dedicated eligible fans. We’ll notify them the same way, and tickets are available while supplies last.

A few things to keep in mind

Reserved is available for select artists and tours for Spotify Premium subscribers who are 18 or older. Window lengths, ticket availability, and eligible dates vary by campaign.

With Reserved, Spotify is continuing its investment in live music while creating a new way to connect artists with their biggest fans.

Have more questions? Check out our Q&A on Substack.

*Update as of August 17, 2026: Reserved is now also available for Premium users in Canada.

More Control, Faster Playlist Editing, and Other Updates for Everyday Listening on Spotify

May 28, 2026

A little refresh can go a long way. We’ve been making behind-the-scenes updates to make Spotify easier to use and more reliable. Based on your feedback, we’re rolling out a series of improvements focused on the everyday features that help keep listening smooth.

Organize your playlists into folders, right from your phone

Your Library is the heart of your listening, and now you can keep it organized on the go. Playlist folders, a longtime desktop favorite, are now available on mobile. You can group your playlists by mood, activity, or genre, making it easier to find the right playlist for any moment.

Available now for all users globally.

Manage your playlists and queue with more control

For those with carefully crafted playlists, you can now use in-playlist bulk actions to edit and reorganize multiple tracks, books, or podcast episodes at the same time—saving you time and taps.

Rolling out now for all users globally. And for Premium users, we’ve brought back the ability to select and manage multiple songs in your play queue at once.

Enjoy more reliable offline listening

We’ve made offline listening more dependable with the rollout of background downloads on iOS. Your music and podcasts will keep downloading even when the app isn’t open, and you’ll see notifications showing their progress. So whether you’re on a flight, underground, or out of range, your listening is ready to go.

Rolling out now for Premium users globally.

Reshuffle your queue with one tap

Mix up the order of your shuffle anytime with the reshuffle button. It’s a fresh way to rediscover a favorite playlist, set a different pace, or hear something new from the music you already love. If the lineup isn’t quite hitting, tap reshuffle for a new sequence. No more toggling shuffle off and back on.

Available now for Premium users on mobile globally.

These are just a few ways we’re improving Spotify, so you can spend less time managing your music and more time enjoying it. Make sure your app is up to date to get the latest features.

Podcast Clips Make Your Favorite Moments Easier to Save and Share

May 27, 2026

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The best podcast moments deserve more than just a mental note. That’s why today, we’re making those moments easier to save and share with clips.

Whether it’s a piece of advice that reframes how you think, a conversation that makes you laugh, or a segment you know a friend needs to hear, those moments are often what turns a casual listener into a devoted fan.

With clips, listeners can now capture, revisit, and share the exact moments from podcasts that resonate most, without having to search through an entire episode to find them.

Clips also come with an upgraded sharing experience. The updated sharing menu gives you more ways to share what you’re hearing, whether it’s a full episode, a chapter, a timestamp, or a clip—all accessible directly from the share icon.

Moments worth coming back to

When listeners hold onto those moments, they come back for more. Your saved clips have a dedicated space in Your Library and can also be added to podcast playlists, so the moments that matter don’t get lost.

Chapters, which launched earlier this year, are already being saved and playlisted more than 2 million times a month. Early testing has also shown that podcast saving increases when clips are enabled. For creators, a saved or shared clip can be a new entry point for potential fans, turning a single moment into a discovery or deeper connection.

How it works

- While listening, tap the scissor icon in the Now Playing view to capture the moment you want to keep. Trim it to fit, then hit Save or Share.
- For more sharing options, tap the share button and choose your format—full episode, chapter, timestamp, or clip—then send it directly to friends via Spotify Messages or any supported platform.
- All clips are saved in Your Library, ready to revisit or add to a podcast playlist whenever you want.

Clips for podcasts are starting to roll out globally to Free and Premium users on mobile, with availability expanding across more shows over time. Look for the clip icon next time you’re listening and start saving the moments that matter.

Introducing a Smarter, Smoother Experience for Tablets

April 16, 2026

At Spotify, we want your experience to feel intuitive and personal across every moment of the day. Whether you’re streaming your favorite playlist while you work or browsing new recommendations on the go, Spotify should feel familiar and easy to use. With tablets—which are often used on the sofa or at a kitchen counter and offer more screen space to browse—we saw an opportunity to give the Spotify experience a little refresh.

Today we’re introducing a new app experience tailored for your tablet, designed to make listening, watching, and discovery feel more natural on larger screens.

A smarter, more responsive design

The refreshed tablet layout, available on iOS and Android devices, is designed to create a more seamless experience across screens where you use Spotify. Rather than simply scaling up mobile components, we designed the tablet experience to take advantage of the extra space, so you can browse and discover new favorites right alongside what you’re already playing. In addition, improvements we make to mobile can reach tablet users faster.

“From TV to desktop to the car, we’ve been designing Spotify to feel native to each screen—and now we’re bringing that same experience to tablets,” said Nicole Burrow, Head of Design, Consumer Experience, Spotify. “Tablets give you more room to explore, so we designed it to let you browse and discover new favorites alongside what’s already playing. The goal was simple: Wherever you open Spotify, it should feel unmistakably like Spotify.”

What’s new

- Adaptive orientation: The interface now reconfigures—not just resizes—as you switch between portrait and landscape, so it feels balanced and intentional in both views.
- A collapsible sidebar: The new sidebar lets you browse and discover alongside your playback, or expands for deeper focus. It also includes interactive, scrollable content so you can explore without leaving what’s playing.
- An enhanced video experience: The “Switch to Video” toggle is now front and center, making it simpler to move into a more immersive viewing experience.
- Parallel browsing: Keep music or video playing on one side of the screen while you explore your library or recommendations on the other.
- A familiar feel: The core navigation stays the same, so the experience still feels like a natural extension of the mobile app. The bottom navigation bar keeps your main pages within easy reach, while the collapsible side drawer gives you quick access to your profile and settings.

With this update, your tablet becomes an even better place to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and video. It’s another step toward a more unified Spotify experience, one that can keep evolving across the devices you use today and the ones you’ll use tomorrow.

A New Era of Personalization: Shape Your Taste Profile on Spotify

March 13, 2026

Spotify has always been built around your taste. More than 80% of listeners say personalization is what they love most about us. Now we’re taking that even further by giving you more visibility and control over how your taste shapes your experience.

On stage at SXSW, our Co-CEO Gustav Söderström announced our next evolution in this space: the ability to review and directly shape your Taste Profile. This new beta feature will begin rolling out to Premium listeners in New Zealand in the coming weeks.

Taste Profile lets you see how Spotify understands your taste and shape it yourself, giving you the ability to steer what you see on the Spotify homepage. It brings together what you listen to across music, podcasts, and audiobooks, from the artists and genres you love to the habits that define your day. You might see that you’re starting to explore ’90s alternative rock, or gravitating toward hip-hop with distinctive influences.

If something doesn’t feel quite right, you can tell us by flagging when your profile misses the mark—asking for more or less of a certain vibe, or simply sharing what you’re in the mood for. Your input helps determine what gets prioritized, what gets dialed back, and what you discover next on the Spotify homepage.

Beyond listening patterns, Taste Profile is designed to capture new dimensions of your taste, like your current interests and habits. Maybe you’re training for a marathon and want more upbeat tracks for morning workouts, or maybe you like to listen to news podcasts during your weekday commute. These signals allow for even deeper personalization. You can shape your Taste Profile as much as you’d like, or leave it and enjoy Spotify as usual.

This is the next step in our vision to make personalization more transparent, responsive, and truly yours. It joins our latest beta launch, Prompted Playlist, which lets you steer the algorithm by creating playlists that tap into your full listening history or anything else you’re in the mood for. As we continue building the future of Spotify, we’re excited to help you shape an experience that grows and evolves alongside you.

Ring In the New Year With New Playlists Mixed by Artists, and More Spotify Hacks

December 17, 2025

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The right playlist is essential on New Year’s Eve, building the energy as you get ready and keeping it high as you count down to midnight. This year, Spotify has your every moment covered. From pro-level party mixes to your own customized creations, here’s how to make your soundtrack unforgettable.

Set the vibe with new mixed playlists

Looking for the perfect party starter? We tapped some of your favorite artists to mix their own New Year’s Eve playlists on Spotify. Head to our Mixed By hub to find and save these new playlists from Anyma and Solomun, Rawayana, Amaarae, Cash Cobain, Jessie Ware, SG Lewis, Rochelle Jordan, Jim E-Stack, and Tiësto.

5 Ways to Get More out of Your Playlists on Spotify

November 20, 2025

Your playlists are personal. They’re the soundtracks to your road trips, your quiet mornings, and your biggest celebrations; collections of memories and discoveries you’ve curated over the years.

On Spotify, your playlists can grow and evolve with you. With powerful tools for discovery, collaboration, and personalization, you can shape them in new ways, making them feel and sound fresh. They’ll also help you explore your own taste as well as the tastes of your friends and family.

Here are five ways to get more out of your music collections on Spotify.

1. Easily move your playlists to Spotify

First things first: getting your playlists onto Spotify. Our latest TuneMyMusic integration, available on mobile and rolling out globally over the coming days, makes it incredibly simple to transfer playlists from other streaming services straight into your Spotify library so you don’t have to start from scratch. No lost favorites, just an easy, built-in way to bring your music home.

Here’s how it works:

- Head to Your Library in the Spotify mobile app and scroll to the bottom.
- Tap “Import your music” and follow the prompts to connect with TuneMyMusic.
- Choose the platform you’d like to transfer from, and watch your playlists appear in Spotify.

2. Make your playlists your own

Once your playlists are on Spotify, you can make them your own with a suite of creative tools. Invite friends to collaborate on a shared playlist or design custom cover art to give it a unique touch. And with newer features like the ability to mix your own playlist transitions so every track flows smoothly into the next, and Smart Filters (available in select markets) to organize your Library by mood, genre, or activity, Premium users have even more ways to shape how they listen.

3. Get personalized recommendations faster

As soon as you start listening to your imported playlists, Spotify’s personalization engine begins to learn your taste. For new listeners, that means Spotify gets to know your taste early on, so personalized playlists like daylist and Release Radar start feeling familiar from the start.

4. Share and listen together with friends

A playlist is a labor of love, a reflection of who you are and what you enjoy. And on Spotify, you can easily collaborate on playlists with friends. With Messages, you can instantly share your favorite playlists and chat about what you’re listening to with friends right in the app (available for users 16+ in select markets). Want to create something new together? See how your tastes match up with Blend, or, if you’re a Premium user, start a real-time listening session with Jam.

5. Give your playlists the sound they deserve

Your music collections can now sound better than ever. With Lossless, Premium listeners in eligible markets can stream their favorite tracks in Spotify’s highest sound quality yet. And with Spotify available across more than 2,000 supported devices, you can enjoy your playlists wherever you listen.

Head to the Spotify app to bring over your favorite playlists and fall in love with your music all over again. You’ll also find millions of podcasts and audiobooks waiting for you—everything you love to listen to, all in one place.

Ready to dive in? Visit spotify.com/premium to see the latest Premium offers in your market. In the US, first-time subscribers can get four months of Premium Individual free through December 31, 2025.