You Can Now Control Whether Kids and Family Music Shapes Your Recommendations — Spotify

Parents love using Spotify to play music for their families. But parents don’t always share the same taste as their young children—and playing music for your kids shouldn’t have to affect your own recommendations. (If your Wrapped is full of the singing princesses you played for the family, you know what we’re talking about.)

Starting today, we’re rolling out a new toggle in your settings that lets you exclude kids and family music from your taste profile, so those streams no longer shape your recommendations. This includes, for example, the songs you play on repeat from your kids’ favorite animated movies, theme songs from family TV shows, nursery rhymes, and more. 

When you turn this setting off, you can still search for, listen to, and build playlists of kids and family music, but those streams won’t affect what Spotify suggests for you. That means experiences like Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, and Wrapped more accurately reflect your taste. And yes, it applies retroactively, so kids music you’ve already listened to won’t count toward your Wrapped top song or artist, for example.

This update is the latest step in our ongoing efforts to give parents and guardians more control over how they and their kids listen. It builds on our existing tools, like the ability to exclude specific tracks or playlists from your taste profile, and works hand-in-hand with our recently expanded managed accounts for young listeners.

Here’s a quick look at how these features work together:

• • The new toggle is a one-tap feature rolling out globally on mobile to Free and Premium users. It’s set to include kids and family music in your taste profile by default, but you can turn it off anytime. Doing so quickly removes the influence of listening to kids and family music on your recommendations, keeping them focused on your taste. So you can play kid-friendly tunes when your children are around, like on a road trip or at bedtime, without letting those songs shape what you hear next.
  • Managed accounts give listeners 13 and under (or the region-equivalent age) a space to discover music on their own, with parental controls that can be adjusted as they grow. Available to parents and guardians on any plan in many countries, managed accounts give kids their own music library and year-end Wrapped experience.