Forget setting your alarm and waiting in hours-long online queues. Spotify has unveiled a clever new way to help you get your hands on concert tickets before everyone else.
Dubbed Reserved, Spotify's newest feature will reserve two tickets for you if you're a devoted fan. The streaming giant will determine this by looking at your listening habits – things like how often you stream an artist, whether you share their music, and how you use the app. If you're clearly a superfan, you'll get a special window to buy tickets before they go on general sale.
Spotify said in a statement: "No racing against thousands of other fans, no hunting for codes, just a reserved window to purchase before tickets are on sale to the general public.
"You show up for the artist, Spotify shows up for you. No added fees from Spotify, and more of an artist’s truest fans will end up in the crowd where it matters most."
However, Britons miss out on this feature for now. It will be first released in the US before expanding to other regions.
The streaming giant will determine this by looking at your listening habits – things like how often you stream an artist, whether you share their music, and how you use the app.
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To be considered for Reserved, you'll need to be at least 18 and have an active Premium subscription. For paid members, the subscription prices are as follows:
- £12.99 for Premium Individual
- £17.99 for Premium Duo
- £21.99 for Premium Family
- £5.99 for Premium Student
Spotify will also keep an eye on accounts to make sure they're being used by actual humans rather than bots – a move designed to keep ticket scalpers at bay.
If you're selected, you'll get an email and a notification in the app. From there, you'll have roughly a day to complete your purchase through a ticketing partner's website.
It's worth noting that not everyone will get an offer. Spotify has noted that there are more superfans out there than seats at any given tour. Availability depends on the artist, tour, and location.
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And that's not the only new feature making its way to the platform.
Spotify is attempting to make podcasts more interactive with a new AI-powered question feature.
Premium subscribers can ask questions about whatever podcast episode they're listening to. Want to know more about something a host mentioned? Curious about a guest's background? You can now get answers without leaving the app.
The company says users can get clarification on concepts, explore topics raised in episodes, or receive recommendations connected to their favourite creators. It all happens in real time while you're listening or watching.
Spotify says the idea is to let fans "delve deeper without leaving Spotify" – essentially keeping you within the app rather than heading off to Google for answers.
The feature works on mobile devices for Premium users, with the US, Sweden, and Ireland getting first dibs before later expansions.
If you prefer a daily briefing or want a five-minute explainer on economics, you can type in a prompt, and Spotify generates personalised audio based on your request and listening habits
| SPOTIFYAnd if you're in the US, you'll also be treated to Personal Podcasts — letting you create your own short audio episodes tailored to whatever you're interested in.
For instance, if you prefer a daily briefing or want a five-minute explainer on economics, you can type in a prompt, and Spotify generates personalised audio based on your request and listening habits.
You can add extra details through text, PDFs, or links, schedule episodes to arrive daily or weekly, and even pick a voice. Everything stays private in your library.
There's a catch, though – you'll get a set number of credits each month, and you'll need to pay for more if you want to create additional episodes.
This is similar to Google's NotebookLM — an AI-powered research and content creation tool designed to help turn source material into usable content faster. Instead of generating ideas from scratch, it works from documents you upload — such as notes, articles, PDFs, transcripts, or reports — to summarise information, identify key themes, answer questions, and draft content.
This makes it especially useful for creating blog posts, study guides, outlines, reports, and brainstorming sessions, as it uses your own materials.
All of these new features arrive just after Spotify celebrated its 20th anniversary — marking two decades in the music streaming game with a new mobile-only feature that feels very similar to its annual Spotify Wrapped experience.
If you haven't accessed the new feature yet, it usually appears in-app, like its other Spotify Wrapped-style campaigns, when available | SPOTIFY PRESS OFFICE Spotify Wrapped is the platform’s yearly recap that summarises your listening habits over the past 12 months, highlighting your top artists, songs, genres, total listening time, and personalised insights into your music taste.
Now, with “Spotify 20: Your Party of the Year(s),” the platform extends that same concept into a much longer time frame—offering a trip down memory lane through your entire listening history on the app.
The experience works like a personalised data capsule, uncovering listening moments that have never been shown before. It reveals details such as your most-streamed artist of all time, total minutes spent listening to them, your first-ever streamed song, and other long-term patterns in your music journey.
As part of the celebration, the company also refreshed the look of its app logo temporarily with a green sparkly disco ball, but users were outraged — calling the icon "ugly" and "weird."