Spotify is rolling out ‘SongDNA’ — a software that lets subscribers hint how one music connects to a different by shared producers, samples and covers — to its Premium subscriber base after first previewing the function in November.
SongDNA will arrive in beta to Premium customers globally on iOS and Android beginning Tuesday (March 24). Spotify says will probably be out there to all Premium customers all through April.
The function first surfaced alongside a companion function, ‘Concerning the Tune’, in November. On the time, the corporate stated it should allow followers to “dive into the influences behind the music they love, whereas giving sampled and coated artists contemporary methods to get found and celebrated.”
Spotify acquired London-based music pattern and remix database WhoSampled in November 2025. The corporate stated on the time that SongDNA could be “powered by WhoSampled,” although its official announcement of the beta rollout doesn’t reference the acquisition.
SongDNA is accessible by way of Spotify’s Now Taking part in view. When a supported observe is taking part in, customers can scroll right down to a SongDNA card and discover the music’s collaborators together with its writers, producers, and collaborators. They’ll have the ability to see samples and interpolations that fed into the sound and lookup covers that it impressed.
From there, listeners can maintain clicking by to different artists who labored with those self same collaborators to see how artists, eras, and genres intersect, stated Spotify.
Spotify defined how the function works by connecting Harry Kinds to Wu-Tang Clan by a sequence of shared collaborators from Kinds to John Mayer, Mayer to songwriter and producer Pino Palladino, Palladino to singer-songwriter and producer D’Angelo, D’Angelo to hip-hop band The Roots, and The Roots to Wu-Tang Clan.
The information comes from info Spotify receives from artists and their groups, in addition to community-sourced contributions.
Spotify says eligible artist and label groups can log into Spotify for Artists to evaluate and handle what seems of their SongDNA profiles, giving them some management over how the inventive story of a observe is confirmed.
“SongDNA is designed to make a music’s inventive lineage extra clear so followers can simply discover the folks and influences behind the music they love.”
Jacqueline Ankner, Spotify
Jacqueline Ankner, Spotify’s Head of Songwriter & Writer Partnerships, stated: “SongDNA is designed to make a music’s inventive lineage extra clear so followers can simply discover the folks and influences behind the music they love.”
“By bringing collaborators, samples, and covers collectively in a single place, we’re making it simpler for followers to find new music and see how songs join and are available to life—whereas giving songwriters, producers, and rightsholders significant recognition for the function they play in creating it.”
SongDNA enhances Spotify’s Concerning the Tune function to supply context on particular person tracks, the corporate stated. As MBW reported in November, Concerning the Tune will likely be swipeable playing cards providing in-depth data concerning the origins of a observe, such because the inspiration behind it or attention-grabbing tales about its creation. Spotify says the information will come from “third events,” however didn’t elaborate.
The beta rollout comes as Spotify additionally introduced that it’s testing a brand new function that lets artists approve releases earlier than they seem on their profile. The ‘Artist Profile Safety’ function addresses the difficulty of songs that seem on artist profile as a result of a metadata mix-up, one other artist with the identical title, or somebody maliciously attaching their music to an artist’s profile.
Earlier in March, Spotify rolled out an AI function known as ‘Style Profile’ to let customers see and form the listening information that drives their customized suggestions.
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