Spotify's SongDNA turns any song into a rabbit hole of credits and collaborations
Spotify has started rolling out SongDNA, a new feature that lets Premium users dig into the full creative history of any track—who wrote it, who produced it, what it sampled, and what it inspired.
Available now in beta on iOS and Android, SongDNA sits inside the Now Playing view. Scroll down while a song is playing and a card appears breaking down everyone involved: writers, producers, engineers, mixers. Tap any name and you're off—Spotify shows you everything else they've worked on, and you can keep pulling that thread as deep as you want. Samples, interpolations, and covers are all in there too.
The people behind the song finally get a spotlight
Think of it as an expansion of the existing "About the Song" feature, but interactive. Where the older feature tells you a song's backstory, SongDNA turns it into something you can explore. One CNET reviewer tapped into a BTS track and immediately landed on Ryan Tedder—the OneRepublic frontman who quietly wrote Halo, Bleeding Love, and Sucker, among dozens of others. That's the kind of connection SongDNA is built to surface.
The feature is partly powered by WhoSampled, the community-built music credits database Spotify acquired last year. Artist and label teams can review and manage their own SongDNA data through Spotify for Artists, so coverage should improve as more teams opt in. It also puts Spotify in direct competition with TIDAL, which has offered interactive credits for years.
The beta is live now for Premium subscribers worldwide, with a full rollout expected through April.
Available now in beta on iOS and Android, SongDNA sits inside the Now Playing view. Scroll down while a song is playing and a card appears breaking down everyone involved: writers, producers, engineers, mixers. Tap any name and you're off—Spotify shows you everything else they've worked on, and you can keep pulling that thread as deep as you want. Samples, interpolations, and covers are all in there too.
The people behind the song finally get a spotlight
Think of it as an expansion of the existing "About the Song" feature, but interactive. Where the older feature tells you a song's backstory, SongDNA turns it into something you can explore. One CNET reviewer tapped into a BTS track and immediately landed on Ryan Tedder—the OneRepublic frontman who quietly wrote Halo, Bleeding Love, and Sucker, among dozens of others. That's the kind of connection SongDNA is built to surface.
The feature is partly powered by WhoSampled, the community-built music credits database Spotify acquired last year. Artist and label teams can review and manage their own SongDNA data through Spotify for Artists, so coverage should improve as more teams opt in. It also puts Spotify in direct competition with TIDAL, which has offered interactive credits for years.
The beta is live now for Premium subscribers worldwide, with a full rollout expected through April.
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