If you’re a Spotify Premium subscriber eager to try out the music streaming service’s AI skills at curating playlists based on prompts, we’ve got good news. After previously rolling out to Premium subscribers in the UK and Australia in 2024, AI Playlist is now expanding to the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand in English.
You can now use Spotify’s AI to create a playlist based on a prompt as short as a single word. You’ll need to be a Premium member, which in the US starts at $11.99 per month for an individual, $16.99 per month for Duo (aka two accounts), or $19.99 per month for a family plan.
The feature, called AI Playlist, is in the Spotify app for Android or iOS, not on desktop or the web. Just make sure you’re running the latest version of the app. I, for one, don’t have any updates and don’t see it yet.
Using AI to Create a Playlist
Once the feature appears in your Spotify app associated with the appropriate subscription, open the app and tap on ‘Library’ in the bottom right. Then tap the plus sign in the top right and find AI Playlist as an option.
From there, you’ll start by entering a prompt and watching a playlist be created. Spotify notes that the more details you provide, the better, but you can also refine it further after the initial list is created and give it another prompt. You can use words, numbers, or emojis, but Spotify doesn’t allow offensive words. It also suggests that when you first play around with this feature, you should be specific — perhaps with a genre, location, or even characters.
As with any AI, specifically a chatbot, that comes close to this, results will vary, and Spotify is quick to reiterate that AI Playlist is in beta. Given that Spotify is already pretty good at music recommendations, adding this level of customization and personalization via AI is a cool feature we’re excited to try out.
It’s rolling out now in English to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, after being available in the UK and Australia for a few months. If you want to give it a try, keep your Spotify app on mobile updated and look for “AI Playlist” to appear. Until then, you’ll have to make your next Fire playlist the old-fashioned way… manually.
