Spotify Lets You Talk to Its AI to Find Music, Check Your History, and Skip the Wait for Wrapped

Key points

• Spotify is testing a new conversational AI feature called "Talk to Spotify" for Premium subscribers in the US, Ireland, and Sweden as of 2025.
• The chatbot reads your personal listening history, including playlists, favourite artists, and repeat tracks, to answer questions and play music.
• The beta is available in English on iOS and Android for users aged 18 and over.
• Amazon Music introduced a comparable voice-driven feature when it added Alexa Plus to its service in 2024.

Spotify wants you to stop scrolling and just ask.

The streaming platform is quietly rolling out a feature called "Talk to Spotify", a conversational AI chatbot built directly into its mobile app. You type a request into a text box, or tap a microphone icon and speak, and the assistant responds. Think of it like texting a friend who has memorised every song you have ever played.

The feature sits on Spotify's Home screen and its Now Playing view, the screen that appears while a track is running. Ask it to "play some songs I haven't heard before" and it will queue something up. Tell it to make the playlist "more upbeat" and it adjusts on the spot. That kind of back-and-forth control is new. Older Spotify tools, like Prompted Playlist, which builds a queue from a short written description, could not respond to follow-up nudges.

What can it actually tell you about your own listening?

Quite a lot. Because the chatbot pulls from your personal listening data, it can answer questions that previously only the annual Spotify Wrapped summary, the year-in-review feature Spotify releases every December, could address. When did you first hear that song? What genres have you been gravitating toward this month? Ask, and you get an answer now, not in December.

The assistant also handles general questions. Ask who else wrote books by the author of the audiobook you are playing, or whether a podcast guest has appeared on other shows. It behaves a lot like typing a question into Google's Gemini or OpenAI's ChatGPT, the two most widely used AI chatbots right now, except it stays inside Spotify and knows your account.

Spotify told The Verge AI the goal is to make the platform "more personal and useful for every listener." The company has faced long-running criticism that its recommendation algorithm serves up the same familiar tracks on repeat. This is one answer to that complaint.

Amazon Music moved in a similar direction last year, weaving its Alexa Plus voice assistant into the service. Spotify's version goes further by surfacing your own data in the replies.

The rollout is gradual. Right now it is a beta test, meaning an early, unfinished version open to a limited group, for Premium subscribers aged 18 and over in the US, Ireland, and Sweden. English only for now. Spotify is upfront that "responses won't always be perfect."

If you are a Premium subscriber in those countries, check your Home tab or the Now Playing screen. The chat box may already be there.