ChatGPT Integrates Spotify For Personalized Music Recommendations

Spotify and ChatGPT are used by millions of individuals worldwide, and both come with capabilities to recommend music to their users. If you've ever used ChatGPT for music discovery, you can now expect it to become more elaborate and precise.

In a Newsroom post published earlier this month, Spotify announced that both Spotify Free and Premium users can now integrate Spotify into their ChatGPT conversations to get personalized music and podcast recommendations.

Free users will receive recommendations from Spotify's existing playlist catalog, including Discover Weekly and New Music Friday. Premium users can go further, turning detailed prompts into fully personalized track selections.

Spotify describes the results as follows: "Once you've connected your Spotify account to ChatGPT, you can ask for the latest from your favorite K-Pop star or a playlist featuring all the Latin artists in your heavy rotation. Or extend an existing ChatGPT conversation, like planning a weekend road trip, by asking Spotify to create the perfect soundtrack."

The feature is available in English across 145 countries for both web and mobile users.

To connect your Spotify and ChatGPT accounts, start a new conversation with the chatbot and mention Spotify in your prompt. You can then log into your Spotify account and write a prompt to ask for recommendations based on various parameters: artists, songs, albums, playlists, and even moods, themes, and topics.

ChatGPT will automatically integrate the Spotify app into your chat and deliver personalized recommendations within the conversation. Tap any track to open the Spotify app and start listening.

For artists, this partnership opens new opportunities for getting discovered, potentially reaching listeners who might have never found their music through traditional music discovery or algorithmic playlists.

However, it also means they'll need to pay closer attention to metadata and how they describe their music. Since the chatbot delivers the best results when given specific details like genre, mood, or artist name, musicians who accurately categorize their releases and describe their sound will have a competitive advantage in getting recommended.

In practice, this includes:

• Providing accurate metadata during the distribution process, including precise genre and subgenre classifications, BPM (tempo), key, correct artist and contributor credits, and all technical information.

• Writing a compelling artist biography for Spotify (via the Spotify for Artists dashboard), other streaming platforms, and social media that clearly communicates who you are as an artist and what genre(s) you produce in. When it comes to describing your sound, you should use compelling adjectives. For example: "Deep house producer inspired by artists like Mr. G. My music blends soulful, immersive atmospheres, with lush chords, subtle melodic elements, and ambient textures." You can also add a sentence about the context in which people would likely enjoy your music the most.

• Maintaining consistency across all platforms. Use the same artist name, genre tags, and descriptive language on Spotify, Apple Music, social media, and your website. AI tools pull information from multiple sources, so consistent messaging ensures you're accurately represented wherever listeners discover you.

Spotify also clarifies that it intends to protect the rights of artists and podcasters: "Spotify will not share music, podcasts, or any other audio or video content on our platform with OpenAI for training purposes."