Spotify is investing in AI, such as ChatGPT integrations and personalized playlists, to retain its users in fierce competition with Apple, Amazon, and YouTube.
The goal is to improve music discovery and engage more users.
According to experts, AI can be a decisive advantage as music selections become more similar and easier to copy.
Key Points
- A new ChatGPT integration with Spotify and a “Prompted Playlists” feature are signals from the music streamer that investing in AI may be the best defense from threats including AI commodification of music and Apple, YouTube and Amazon competition for subscribers.
- Spotify, which has seen its stock price slump over the past year, says its interactive DJ, introduced in 2023, now has roughly 90 million subscribers and has racked up four billion hours of user time spent.
- “The catalogs at Amazon, Apple and YouTube are similar — nearly identical songs — to Spotify, just like Bing and Edge are nearly identical to Google,” says Michael Pachter, Wedbush Securities senior advisor.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/22/spotify-apple-amazon-streaming-music-ai.html