Your favourite song, remixed by you. That is the idea Spotify is reportedly preparing to sell back to its own subscribers — and it wants more money for it.
According to a Financial Times report published on 30 October 2026 and carried by Reuters, Spotify is targeting the first quarter of 2027 to launch a paid add-on that lets Premium subscribers use artificial intelligence to create their own covers and remixes of songs already on the platform. The reported price: an extra four to five dollars a month, paid on top of the regular Premium subscription. Neither the price nor the launch date is final, the FT’s sources say, and Spotify declined to comment on the report.
The story matters because of what it signals. Spotify has spent years convincing listeners that access to millions of songs is worth a monthly subscription. Now it is preparing to charge extra for the privilege of rearranging those songs with AI. For millions of subscribers — including a fast-growing base in Pakistan, where Spotify has become a daily habit for young listeners — the question is simple: is remixing your own playlist worth paying for twice?
What the AI remix add-on would actually do
The concept is straightforward. A Premium subscriber paying for the add-on could take a commercially released song by an artist who has opted in, and ask Spotify’s AI to rework it — turn a folk song into a dance track, for example, or make it sound like one artist covering another’s song.
Crucially, the tool is designed around licensed covers and remixes of existing recordings. Spotify has said it is not meant for generating entirely new tracks from text prompts, the way standalone AI music generators do. The remixes could then be uploaded back to Spotify, added to playlists, and their plays would be credited to the original track on Spotify’s charts.
Only songs by participating artists would be eligible. The FT reports that artists will be able to decide individually whether to take part, even if their record label has already licensed its catalogue to Spotify for the tool — a detail that could decide how large the remixable library actually is.
The price and the timing — what the FT reported
The Financial Times says Spotify aims to launch the add-on in the first quarter of 2027, with a possible unveiling around the Grammy Awards in February. The extra charge of four to five dollars a month would sit on top of Premium, which costs $12.99 a month for an Individual plan in the United States — pushing the monthly total to roughly seventeen or eighteen dollars for subscribers who choose it.
This is an optional add-on, not a Premium price increase. Subscribers who do not want the remix tool would keep paying the same amount they pay today.
An analyst quoted in the FT report estimated that around seven to eight percent of Premium subscribers in the United States could be paying for the AI add-on by 2028 — which, given that Spotify reported 306 million Premium subscribers and 788 million monthly active users at the end of September 2026, would still be a significant new revenue stream.
Who has signed up — and where artists’ money goes
Spotify has been quietly lining up the licences this tool needs. It announced a deal with Universal Music Group at its Investor Day in May 2026, followed by independent-label group Merlin in August, music publisher Kobalt later that month, and the French company Believe — whose agreement also covers the artists and labels distributed through TuneCore — on 20 October. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are continuing, according to the FT.
The money question is where artists come in. According to the FT report, royalties generated by a fan’s remix would flow back to the artists behind the original song, not to the fan who made it. The arrangement is designed to keep money moving toward musicians even as fans take over the mixing desk.
Not everyone is convinced. Producer Jermaine Dupri told artists on Instagram to come together and set their own fee for the tool — a public pushback reported on 2 November — and there has been no public reply from Spotify.
Whether subscribers will pay is the other open question. AI-generated music is already one of the most contested topics in the industry: Arooj Aftab has demanded fair pay for artists whose work trains AI models, and many musicians worry that fan remixes will blur the line between their work and machine-made copies. Spotify’s answer is to build the tool inside the licensing system, pay the royalties, and let the subscriber pay again for the scissors.
The add-on has not been announced officially, and its price and launch date remain unconfirmed. But the direction of travel is clear: after years of fighting for subscriber growth, Spotify is now looking to sell them the same catalogue twice — this time with an AI mixer in the middle.
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