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Spotify Now Lets You Keep Kids' Music Out of Your Wrapped
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In Short: Spotify has announced a new feature that lets parents and guardians control which music influences their personal taste profile on the streaming service.
Spotify has announced a new feature that lets parents and guardians control which music influences their personal taste profile on the streaming service. This setting ensures that music aimed at kids and families, such as animated movie soundtracks and nursery rhymes, no longer affects their Spotify Wrapped experience.
This feature is particularly useful for parents who use their personal Spotify account to entertain the whole family. If you’ve spent the past year listening to the same children’s movie soundtrack on every road trip, or your kid has demanded a particular song approximately 700 times, this new option can make a noticeable difference.
Once the setting is disabled, kids’ and family music will no longer factor into personalized recommendations such as Discover Weekly and Daily Mix, and will also be excluded from listening insights, including a listener’s year-end Spotify Wrapped recap. This means that if you’ve accumulated an impressive number of streams from the soundtrack to your child’s favorite animated movie, those plays won’t continue counting toward your top songs or artists.
Importantly, this setting does not prevent anyone from listening to kids’ music. Parents can still use their Spotify account to play Disney songs, but they won't influence their recommendations or Wrapped roundup. For the first time in forever, your year-end Spotify Wrapped compilation can now reflect your own musical tastes, not your kids’ most-played songs.
What's confirmed
- Spotify has announced a new feature that lets parents and guardians control which music influences their personal taste profile on the streaming service. This setting ensures that music aimed at kids and families, such as animated movie soundtracks and nursery rhymes, no longer affects their Spotify Wrapped experience.
- This feature is particularly useful for parents who use their personal Spotify account to entertain the whole family. If you’ve spent the past year listening to the same children’s movie soundtrack on every road trip, or your kid has demanded a particular song approximately 700 times, this new option can make a noticeable difference.
- Once the setting is disabled, kids’ and family music will no longer factor into personalized recommendations such as Discover Weekly and Daily Mix, and will also be excluded from listening insights, including a listener’s year-end Spotify Wrapped recap. This means that if you’ve accumulated an impressive number of streams from the soundtrack to your child’s favorite animated movie, those plays won’t continue counting toward your top songs or artists.
- Importantly, this setting does not prevent anyone from listening to kids’ music. Parents can still use their Spotify account to play Disney songs, but they won't influence their recommendations or Wrapped roundup. For the first time in forever, your year-end Spotify Wrapped compilation can now reflect your own musical tastes, not your kids’ most-played songs.
What's still developing
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- If your Spotify Wrapped has been riddled with the Kidz Bop Kids and “Baby Shark,” Spotify has the solution.
- Spotify can now distinguish between the music you’re playing because your child loves it and the music you actually want to hear yourself.
- And that distinction could make a noticeable difference when Spotify decides what comes next.
- Many Spotify users look forward to their Wrapped roundup, which comes out in early December.