Spotify Plans Paid AI Remix Tool, Launching Early 2027

Spotify is preparing a tool that will let users generate AI-made remixes of existing songs. The service is expected to launch in early 2027, and the company plans to present it officially during the Grammy Awards ceremony in February.

Access will cost extra: about $5 a month on top of the Premium subscription. Users will be able to turn a folk track into a dance song, for example, or create a version that sounds as if another artist is performing it.

Labels and artist control

Spotify has reportedly already reached agreements with Universal Music Group and several smaller labels. Talks with Sony Music and Warner Music are still under way. Notably, artists will be able to block their music from being used for remix generation themselves, even if their label has agreed to take part.

Listening to generated versions will earn royalties for the artists and rights holders of the original works. Spotify will also count plays of remixes toward the original tracks in its charts.

Backlash over AI clean-up

The news follows Spotify's report in late October 2026 that it removed more than 50 million AI-generated tracks from recommendations, and fully deleted another 75 million AI compositions for violating its rules. Some social media users now argue that this purge was not about protecting listeners, but about clearing recommendations of competing content ahead of the company's own AI product.

The plan shows how streaming services are trying to bring generative music inside a licensed, revenue-sharing framework rather than leaving it to unregulated uploads. The outcome of the talks with Sony Music and Warner Music will determine how much of the major-label catalog the tool can cover at launch.