tech
January 22, 2026
Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada
Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.
TL;DR
- Spotify's new AI feature, Prompted Playlists, is now available to Premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada.
- Users can create playlists by describing their desired music in natural language, going beyond simple prompts.
- The AI analyzes real-time music trends, culture, history, and the user's entire listening history for personalization.
- Users can also instruct the AI to break from their usual habits, discover new artists, or avoid specific listening history.
- Prompts can be inspired by non-musical elements like weather or TV shows and are shareable, though resulting playlists are personalized.
- Prompted Playlists represents an evolution of Spotify's earlier AI playlist feature, offering enhanced capabilities.
- The older AI playlist feature will remain available alongside the new one.
- The feature is currently in beta with usage limits and is only available in English.
- Global rollout timing is dependent on learning from initial market performance.