Spotify Blend: What is Spotify Blend and how to make a Spotify Blend playlist with your friends

Spotify’s new Blend playlist feature lets you build an epic playlist for you and your friends, here’s everything you should know about Spotify Blend and how to use it.

For generations, music has brought people together, from the majesty of orchestra to the rave of a car ride with your own ‘awesome mix’ burned on a CD.

However, in the age of streaming, Spotify has taken group listening even further by releasing Blend, a shared playlist that fuses your favourite tracks with your friends'.

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This combines the best of Spotify’s personalisation features and collaborative playlist functions into one shared playlist for everyone to enjoy. Now, your squad can enjoy a listening session designed specifically with everyone in mind.

What are Spotify Blend Playlists?

Blend allows up to 10 users in one group to create shared playlists that merge their latest music tastes and it updates daily according to your listening habits. Blend playlists can be accessed via all accounts in a group and Spotify’s algorithm will mix-up the various songs in the collection based on what each listener is streaming.

Create your own Spotify Blend playlist with Tiana from The Princess and the Frog. Image: SpotifyCreate your own Spotify Blend playlist with Tiana from The Princess and the Frog. Image: Spotify
Create your own Spotify Blend playlist with Tiana from The Princess and the Frog. Image: Spotify

This cuts out the conflict of creating a song-by-song playlist with friends by using algorithmic intelligence to generate one for you. As an automatic feature, this saves everyone a lot of time and effort. Once you and your friends create a Blend playlist, Spotify generates a ‘taste match score’ that highlights the similarity of your music tastes with stylish infographics which you can share on your social media.

How to create a Spotify Blend playlist:

With Spotify’s latest updates, you can ‘Blend’ with as many as 10 friends, and enjoy a personalised playlist that reflects the entire group. While users need a Spotify account to make Blend playlists, a Premium subscription is not necessary.

To blend with others on iPhone or Android, just follow these simple steps:

Create and Invite

Search “Blend” on Spotify’s search bar and then tap “Invite” to choose members for your group.

Blend

Once your friends accept the invite, Spotify will automatically generate a shared Blend playlist, including songs that reflect everyone’s musical preferences. You will even be able to see who introduced each song to the playlist, whether it's just one of you or the whole group.

Listen and Share

After all members have joined the Blend playlist, everyone will receive a custom share card that you can share directly to Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, or Facebook.

Spotify Blend features: Music-match with your favourite celebrities

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If you’ve ever been intrigued to learn about your favourite artist’s music tastes then Spotify Blend is for you. A new update allows you to check, and even compare, music tastes when you create a Blend with music artists, athletes and creators combining your tastes into one shared playlist.

This includes famous artists like BTS, boygenius, Charli XCX, the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus, athletes such as footballers Robert Lewandowski and Ronaldinho as well as influencers including Anna Sitar and Pokimane. For Disney's 100th anniversary, the streaming platform have also expanded the feature to several Disney Princesses, such as Cinderella and Belle.

Miley Cyrus is one artist you can create a Blend playlist with on Spotify. Image: Getty Miley Cyrus is one artist you can create a Blend playlist with on Spotify. Image: Getty
Miley Cyrus is one artist you can create a Blend playlist with on Spotify. Image: Getty

To Blend with any artist just click the link on Spotify's blog and the app will do the rest.

This means you can enjoy a custom playlist that merges your musical tastes with those of celebrities, including a ‘taste-match share card’ that shows you how similar your taste in music in music is to theirs with a percentage, which can be shared directly on social media.

What are you waiting for? Get streaming!

No delicious beverage was made without ‘blending’ the right ingredients, and Spotify’s Blend upholds this truth in the musical world. Music brings people together, and Spotify Blend makes it easier than ever.

With new 2023 updates and state-of-the-art algorithmic intelligence, listeners can enjoy a personalised playlist experience unlike any they’ve ever had.

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