Overview

• New imitation policy permits AI vocal replicas only with explicit authorization from the artist being imitated, with violating content subject to removal.
• This autumn Spotify will begin rolling out a music spam filter to flag mass-uploaded, low‑quality or manipulative tracks and stop recommending them, with a gradual implementation to avoid harming legitimate creators.
• Spotify will support and show DDEX-standard credits indicating where AI was used in a track, a voluntary disclosure that more than 15 labels and distributors have committed to adopt.
• The company is piloting distributor-level defenses to block fraudulent uploads to the wrong artist profiles and is accelerating reviews of misattributed or suspicious content, including pre-release reports.
• Spotify says it removed over 75 million spam tracks in the past year and reports that fully AI-generated songs draw minimal listening on the platform.