Spotify announced on Tuesday the global rollout of a new feature, SongDNA, that lets listeners more deeply explore their favourite music. Now available to Premium subscribers on iOS and Android, the feature provides an interactive experience that lets users trace other components of a song beyond the singer, songwriter, or musician.
With SongDNA, listeners could explore other connections, like who may have covered that song, plus other information like samples, interpolations, or what other projects the song's collaborators have also been involved in. You can access it by opening the Now Playing view while listening to a specific song and then scrolling down to the SongDNA box.
SongDNA is designed as an interactive discovery tool. You can tap on any contributor to explore other artists they've worked with, then keep branching out from there to find related tracks, covers, interpolations, and more. This transforms the listening experience from passive consumption into active exploration, allowing users to trace how artists influence one another across genres and decades.
In part, SongDNA has been built on top of data from the online community-built music database WhoSampled, which Spotify acquired last year. As of February 2026, the website contains 1,294,557 songs and 402,043 artists in its catalogue. The breadth of this database underpins SongDNA's ability to surface creative connections that might otherwise remain hidden.
"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," said Jacqueline Ankner, Spotify's Head of Songwriter & Publisher Partnerships, in a statement.
Early beta testers on Reddit have described SongDNA as one of the most useful additions to Spotify in years because it surfaces connections between songs that aren't always obvious. The feature sits alongside Spotify's expanded Song Credits programme, which now displays contributors historically overlooked in streaming metadata, including engineers, mixers, background vocalists, and session musicians.
Spotify Premium users will eventually see SongDNA in the "Now Playing" view, where they can explore the creative roots of the music they're listening to. The feature is rolling out in beta now, with wider availability coming in April.
SongDNA also competes with rival platforms. The feature also competes with TIDAL's interactive credits, which similarly focus on the contributors behind the songs you stream. By consolidating creator recognition and music discovery into a single interactive tool, Spotify is betting that listeners care not just about who sings, but about the entire ecosystem that shapes sound.
For producers, songwriters, and sampled artists, SongDNA offers new pathways to discovery. A listener tracing influences in a contemporary hip-hop track might stumble upon 1970s soul records or 1980s funk breaks sampled in the production. Those older artists gain exposure without needing to release new music. The feature thus creates visibility for the full lineage of music, recognising that contemporary creation is always built on what came before.