Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant

Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.

Your next Spotify song could soon carry an AI warning label, and the music industry is all for it

The music industry wants Spotify and Apple Music to label AI-generated songs, giving listeners greater transparency as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly common in music production.

Spotify will let you fine-tune your weekly Release Radar playlist
Spotify will let you fine-tune your weekly Release Radar playlist

Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar – one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new options allow you to narrow the playlist to a specific genre, focus on artists that are new to you, and more. Listeners can choose from up to five options like […]

Spotify just gave Release Radar new controls so you can find new music your way

Spotify is rolling out new session controls to Release Radar globally, letting you filter your weekly new music playlist by genre, new artists, or editor picks before you hit play.

Spotify finally lets you pin more than four items in your library, and it only took a few years

Spotify’s library pin limit was stuck at four for years. Now it’s 20, which makes it the most generous pin limit among major music streamers.

Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony fight Belgium’s creator-pay law at the EU court
Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony fight Belgium’s creator-pay law at the EU court

Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony have taken Belgium to Europe’s top court. They say its copyright law forces platforms to pay creators far beyond what the EU intended. Four of the biggest names in tech asked the EU’s Court of Justice on Tuesday to rein i…

Spotify’s streaming fraud issue runs so deep that Kalshi traders are profiting from rigged charts

Spotify has removed more than half a million streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after finding suspected bot activity, according to a report by Financial Times. The track, first released in 2024, suddenly rose to No. 1 on Spotify’s daily U.S. c…

Spotify pushes back on Kalshi and Polymarket after a song’s chart run looked rigged
Spotify pushes back on Kalshi and Polymarket after a song’s chart run looked rigged

Spotify has removed roughly 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after the track’s sudden rise to the top of its US daily chart lined up suspiciously well with a bet on the prediction market Kalshi. The company has also asked Kalshi and …