Spotify expands Prompted Playlist beta to the U.S. and Canada

The feature combines the user’s listening history with real-time world data to create smart playlists based on natural-language prompts. Here are the details.

Prompted Playlist adds to current AI-based features, like AI Playlist

Last month, Spotify announced Prompted Playlist, a beta feature available only to Premium Listeners in New Zealand.

From the announcement:

Prompted Playlist lets you describe exactly what you want to hear and set the rules for your personalized playlist. And unlike anything before it, this feature taps into your entire Spotify listening history, all the way back to day one. Each playlist reflects not only what you love today, but the full arc of your taste. Spotify then curates and keeps it fresh based on your listening patterns and world knowledge.

Today, the feature begins rolling out to Premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada.

With Prompted Playlist, users can set the playlist to refresh daily or weekly. Once the playlist is created, they can either edit their original prompt or start from scratch if they don’t like the result.

Each track included in the playlist comes with “descriptions and context that tell you the story behind the recommendation,” which Spotify says helps make the experience feel more dynamic and personalized.

Here are a few example prompts:

• Music from my top artists from the last five years, featuring deep cuts I haven’t heard yet.
• High-energy pop and hip-hop for a 30-minute 5K run that keeps a steady pace before easing into relaxing songs for a cool-down. Include music from this year’s biggest films and most-talked-about TV shows that match my taste.
• Mood-boosting indie-pop for getting ready to go out with friends, including songs recently featured on hit competition and reality shows that fit my taste, along with songs I love but haven’t played this year.
• Warm acoustic songs for a slow Sunday morning, plus hidden gems and covers from singer-songwriters trending globally right now.
• Songs that feel like my early-2000s college years mixed with upbeat tracks from the TV shows, movies, and pop culture moments that defined that decade.

Once the user taps “Generate playlist,” Spotify will analyze trends, charts, culture, and history, as well as the user’s listening habits from day one, and will come up with the result.

To help users get acquainted with the feature and its possibilities, Spotify will start showing example prompts “created by Spotify’s music editors and culture experts” on the platform’s Home screen. The company says, “they’ve designed a mix of playful prompts that generate personalized playlist ideas you can easily customize.”

But didn’t this already exist?

Not exactly. In late 2024, Spotify announced AI Playlist, a feature that lets users generate playlists by typing a prompt.

Prompted Playlist, however, goes a step further: it factors in real-time information, plus the user’s own listening history, and allows them to control whether (and when) the playlist should be updated.

Here’s how to use Prompted Playlist

1. Open Spotify and tap Create, then select Prompted Playlist.
2. Describe what you want to hear, whether it’s a specific vibe, scenario, or cultural moment.
3. Spotify will generate a playlist from your idea. From there, you can also set it to refresh daily or weekly.

Spotify says it will keep listening to user feedback to improve Prompted Playlist before rolling it out to more broadly.

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