Behind every great song is a complex web of people, stories, and inspirations that span genres and decades. Today, we’re bringing those relationships to the forefront of the listening experience by revealing the intricate network of people and creative connections behind the music you love.
Now rolling out to Premium users globally, SongDNA is our new, immersive music experience that’s built right into the Now Playing view. By simply tapping the SongDNA card, you can explore the writers, producers, and collaborators behind a song, see samples and interpolations that shaped its sound, and browse the covers it inspired. But it doesn’t stop there. You can tap into any of those creators to discover the other artists they’ve worked with, then explore those collaborators in turn. It’s an interactive way to follow the connections between tracks and see how artists, eras, and genres intersect, giving you a deeper understanding of how what you’re listening to came together.
Here’s how it works:
- While listening to a song in the Spotify mobile app, open the Now Playing view.
- Scroll down to find the SongDNA card on supported tracks.
- Tap in to see the song’s collaborators, samples, interpolations, and covers, and then follow the links to discovery.
Empowering the creative community
For artists and the wider creative community of songwriters, producers, composers, and engineers, SongDNA offers a new way for fans to engage with their work by putting collaborations and influences front and center.
The connections you see in SongDNA are powered by a combination of information we receive from artists and their teams, supplemented by community-sourced data. As we continue to evolve this experience in beta, eligible artist and label teams can review and manage the components of SongDNA in Spotify for Artists, ensuring they have a direct hand in how their musical story is told.
“SongDNA is designed to make a song’s creative lineage more transparent so fans can easily explore the people and influences behind the music they love,” said Jacqueline Ankner, Spotify‘s Head of Songwriter & Publisher Partnerships. “By bringing collaborators, samples, and covers together in one place, we’re making it easier for fans to discover new music and see how songs connect and come to life—while giving songwriters, producers, and rightsholders meaningful recognition for the role they play in creating it.”
A new dimension of discovery
SongDNA complements existing features like About the Song to give listeners a deeper understanding of the music they love. Where About the Song helps you understand the story behind a specific track, SongDNA turns a song into an immersive, exploratory experience:a world fans can step into.
SongDNA is another way we’re bringing fans closer to the artists they love while ensuring that everyone who works on a song gets the recognition they deserve. The feature is now rolling out in beta for Premium users globally on iOS and Android mobile devices, and will become broadly available to all Premium users throughout April.
