Bye-Bye, ‘Baby Shark’: Spotify Lets Parents Keep Kids’ Music From Taking Over Year-End ‘Wrapped’ Recap

If your Spotify Wrapped has been riddled with the Kidz Bop Kids and “Baby Shark,” Spotify has the solution.

Announced Tuesday (Sept.

15), the streaming service is rolling out a setting that allows parents and guardians to prevent music aimed at kids and families from influencing their personal taste profile.

This means that those hours of animated-movie soundtracks, nursery rhymes and children’s TV theme songs can finally stop skewing their Spotify experience.

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Maybe you’ve spent the past year listening to the same children’s movie soundtrack on every road trip, or your kid has demanded a particular song approximately 700 times.

Spotify can now distinguish between the music you’re playing because your child loves it and the music you actually want to hear yourself.

And that distinction could make a noticeable difference when Spotify decides what comes next.

Once the setting is disabled, kids’ and family music will no longer factor into personalized recommendations such as Discover Weekly and Daily Mix.

It will also be excluded from listening insights, including a listener’s year-end Spotify Wrapped recap.

The change applies retroactively too.

So if you’ve already accumulated an impressive number of streams from the soundtrack to your child’s favorite animated movie, those plays won’t continue counting toward your top songs or artists once the setting is switched off.

Importantly, though, this doesn’t prevent anyone from listening to kids’ music.

Parents can still search for those songs, play them and add them to playlists — they simply won’t contribute to the taste profile used to personalize the rest of their Spotify experience.