Spotify celebrates Pride Month with curated playlists from talent including Tyler Oakley, Erika Jayne, iLoveMakonnen and many more This past year carried huge moments for LGBTQ artists. From Troye Sivan to Frank Ocean, and Halsey to Lady Gaga, we’ve been blessed with memorable music from some of the most talented artists. In celebration of Pride […]

To celebrate summer’s impending arrival, Spotify is serving up its predictions for the songs that are bound to form your soundtrack to those blissful warmer months. To create this year’s Songs of Summer predictions, Spotify tapped the insights of its genre and trend experts, analyzed its streaming data, and considered factors such as a song’s […]

To celebrate Mother’s Day, Spotify has created shareable playlist poems for listeners to show their mom’s just how Much she means. Each sOng title spells out a Message, So sons and daughters can tell her “I’ve got your back,” say soRry (yoU know what you did), appreciate mom’s wisdom, say “cheers” to her wiLd sidE […]

Spotify and Capital One users are passionate about the music they listen to and the rewards they earn. Starting today, a new special offer from Capital One gives Spotify Premium customers 50% back on the cost of their subscription when they pay with a Capital One Quicksilver® or QuicksilverOne® card, making it more rewarding for […]

Spotify is introducing a brand new way to share and discover music. Today, we are introducing Spotify Codes, a brand new way for users to share any track, artist, album, or playlist available on Spotify, as easily as taking a picture. Scan a code on your friend’s phone to follow his or her party playlist, […]

To celebrate arguably the most universally-understood language in the world, the emoji, Spotify looked at the relationships between emojis and the music and artists they describe. Spotify has over two billion user-generated playlists of which over 35 million have at least one emoji in their titles. The top ten most emoji-ed artists and the emoji […]

Music is a universal phenomenon, and we think musical knowledge should be, too. Every song has a story to be told. When we first joined forces with Genius to introduce Behind the Lyrics on iOS last year, our goal was to put these stories—from the inspiration behind each lyric to what that artist was feeling […]

Music sounds better with friends. And now it’s easier than ever to share and discover music within Facebook Messenger with the new Spotify bot for Messenger with the all-new Chat Extensions feature, announced today at Facebook’s annual developer conference, F8. The Spotify bot for Messenger will serve up playlist recommendations based on mood, activity, or […]

To view the Traffic Jams trailer, click here.   What do you get when you pair a rapper and a producer who’ve never worked together before, throw them in the back seat of an SUV, send them into the middle of LA’s legendary rush hour traffic and tell them that they have to create a […]

Today we are pleased to welcome the team from MightyTV to Spotify. The company is led by Founder/CEO Brian Adams who will be joining Spotify as VP of Technology, focusing on advertising and marketing technology solutions. Brian will use his vast knowledge of programmatic advertising and personalized recommendations to further develop Spotify’s advertising products, as […]