Overview
- About the Song is rolling out on iOS and Android in English for Premium users in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
- Listeners access it from the Now Playing view by scrolling to the About the Song card on supported tracks and swiping through the story cards.
- The cards draw on third-party material, are at least partly generated with machine learning, and cite sources such as Variety, TIME, Hypebeast and Wikipedia.
- Coverage is limited to a subset of songs at launch, with thumbs-up/thumbs-down ratings and in-card feedback for artists and listeners to improve quality.
- Spotify has not set timing for wider availability or free users, framing the feature as one of several experiments alongside audiobook purchases, Page Match, lyrics updates and Developer Mode API changes.