Spotify and OpenAI‘s ChatGPT to Power AI-Driven Music Recommendations
Stockholm, sweden – September 4, 2025 - Spotify and OpenAI are joining forces to integrate ChatGPT into a new proposal feature, aiming to deliver hyper-personalized music suggestions to the platform’s 615 million active users.The collaboration arrives amid escalating tensions between artists and streaming services over the use of copyrighted material in artificial intelligence training.
The partnership seeks to leverage ChatGPT’s natural language processing capabilities to understand user preferences on a deeper level than traditional algorithmic recommendations. Instead of relying solely on listening history, the new feature will allow users to describe the mood, activity, or even a complex feeling they want to soundtrack, and ChatGPT will generate a tailored playlist. Spotify anticipates the feature will roll out to a limited beta group in November 2025, with wider availability planned for early 2026.
this move comes as Spotify navigates a period of artist unrest. Last week, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek transitioned to the role of Executive Chair, with Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström appointed as co-CEOs. The leadership change followed a boycott initiated by numerous artists protesting Ek’s $694 million investment,through his investment firm Helsing,into an AI military company. Simultaneously, Spotify faces scrutiny alongside other LLM companies, including OpenAI, in a recent lawsuit filed by the international Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP). The ICMP alleges “the largest IP theft in human history,” claiming that companies infringed on copyrights to train their AI models. OpenAI previously revealed in April 2020 that its music generator, Jukebox, was trained on 1.2 million songs.
spotify hopes the ChatGPT integration will demonstrate a commitment to innovation and user experience, perhaps mitigating some of the negative sentiment surrounding AI’s role in the music industry. the success of the feature will likely hinge on addressing concerns about fair compensation for artists whose work contributes to the AI’s learning process.
