Want to better understand how to showcase the story behind your music on Spotify? The new SongDNA feature can help you tell your project’s story in a deeper way. It highlights the people who contributed to a track, the inspirations around it and certain connections with other songs.
For an independent artist, this is not just a technical detail. It is also a new way to add context around your music, strengthen your image and create a richer experience for your fans.
🎯 SongDNA on Spotify: What is this feature for?
SongDNA is a feature that allows fans, artists and other creators to explore the world behind a track more deeply, directly in the Spotify mobile app.
In practice, SongDNA highlights several elements around a song:
- contributors
- creative collaborations
- connections between songs
- information related to samples, covers or interpolations
SongDNA helps you show that a song is not just an audio file: it tells a story, reveals a creative network and gives more context to your process. This approach is especially useful if you want to structure your presence on Spotify more clearly.
📱 Who can see SongDNA?
SongDNA appears in the Spotify mobile app. To access it on your own tracks through Spotify for Artists preview, several conditions must be met.
- you need to have an admin or editor role in Spotify for Artists
- your profile must have at least 10 monthly listeners
- you need to use the latest version of the Spotify app
If the feature does not appear immediately, simply restarting the app may be enough. And if your goal is to grow your Spotify audience, you can also strengthen your strategy with these tips on how to get on Spotify playlists.
🔍 How to open SongDNA on a track
You can explore SongDNA in two ways in the Spotify mobile app.
From the “Now Playing” view
- listen to a song in the Spotify app
- scroll down in the “Now Playing” view
- tap “Explore” on the SongDNA card
From the song menu
- open the track of your choice
- tap the three dots
- select “Explore SongDNA”
In other words, SongDNA is built directly into the listening experience. It is not hidden in a complicated menu, which makes it potentially more interesting for fans who are curious to discover what happens behind the scenes.
🧠 Why SongDNA can become a real asset for artists
What makes SongDNA interesting is not only the informational side of the feature. Its real value also lies in its potential for storytelling and branding.
Today, your audience does not only listen to a song. They are also interested in what it says, how it was created, who is part of your creative world and what kind of universe you are building. The more visible you make all of this, the more you strengthen what makes you unique.
SongDNA can also become a valuable networking tool. By exploring the people credited on tracks that match your artistic universe, you can discover producers, songwriters, engineers or musicians you may want to work with in the future. If you come across a song you love, SongDNA makes it easier to understand who helped create it and can help you identify new collaborators for upcoming releases.
- you highlight your team and collaborations
- you give more depth to your songs
- you enrich the fan experience
- you strengthen your artistic identity
- you can identify potential collaborators more easily
- you can discover the people behind the songs that inspire you
If you are also working on your visual consistency and image, I recommend reading this article on music branding for artists.
🛠️ How to manage SongDNA in Spotify for Artists
SongDNA can be managed from Spotify for Artists on desktop. The changes you make only affect the SongDNA experience, not the standard credits displayed elsewhere on Spotify.
If you appear as the performing artist on the track, you can notably:
- hide or show certain third-party contributors
- hide or show associations between tracks
- manage certain information related to samples and interpolations
⚠️ Changes are not instant: they can take up to 48 hours to appear in the mobile app.
🚀 How to integrate SongDNA into your release strategy
The real value of SongDNA is that you should not see it as just another Spotify update. You can integrate it into a broader release strategy.
For example, when releasing a single, you can use SongDNA to extend the story around the track:
- highlight the collaborators behind the song
- create social media content around the behind-the-scenes process
- strengthen the consistency between your storytelling, visuals and Spotify profile
- encourage your audience to explore your universe more deeply
To prepare this properly, you can rely on this article on Spotify Countdown Pages as well as this guide on how to promote your music with Groover.
In short, SongDNA will not do all the promotion work for you. But when used well, it can become an extra piece of a more engaging release strategy!
