how do i find what genre a song is

[Kettle]

You are able to find songs by genre, But what I want to do is find out what Genre a song is so i can look it up. I remain unsure for what i like in a song and knowing what genre two songs might share would help me find songs out of my loop.

[AdamDamon · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kettle,

Thanks for posting in the Spotify Community, and welcome!

Unfortunately, at the moment there isn’t a way to check the genres that Spotify classifies songs into via the Spotify app itself. However, there’s currently a Live Idea for showing the genres of songs on Spotify.

If it’s something you’re interested in, I would recommend adding your +VOTE to the idea; the more votes an idea gets, the likelier it is that Spotify will implement it, and you can read more about how feedback on ideas reaches Spotify here.

You can also feel free to Subscribe to the idea by clicking the three dots next to its title; that way you can be sure to be informed of any relevant updates.

In the meantime, I'd recommend searching for music releases on websites that include genre information, such as Rate Your Music (my personal favorite resource for genre info), Discogs, and Last.fm, to see which genres they classify the music into. I think that Last.fm (which has user-generated genre info), is also nice because it shows this genre info (“tags”) for individual songs. 

If the artist has a Bandcamp page, you can also check the genre tags at the bottom of the webpage for an individual track on one of their releases, to see which genres the artist considers their song to represent.

There’s also a third-party app for Spotify (mentioned in this related thread) that you might be interested in trying, http://organizeyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com, which shows you the genres that Spotify classifies individual songs into. You can log in with your Spotify account, and choose to see genre info either for all the songs in your entire Spotify library, or from certain playlists in your library. Users should be careful and connect third-party apps to Spotify at their own discretion.

I hope this helps, and let me know if you have any other questions.

Have a good day!

[hans-jürgen]

Also if you scrobble your Spotify listening to Last.fm, you can directly check if the song, album and artist has a genre tag there:

Applications Settings | Last.fm

[littlechap]

I find that depending the quantity of songs you have on your liked songs playlists, you can get some of these genres in there. I've been working on making and organising my own decades, and playlists, and put them one at a time in my liked songs playlist to see what they're in. For now I'm seeing what's in the Pop Dance genre then making that into a Playlist.

[bnrl]

Be aware that the service http://organizeyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com

is http only and not secured!

[AdamDamon]

Hi @bnrl,

Thank you for your feedback!

Spotify can’t guarantee that all 3rd party apps are safe. Since I haven’t experienced any issues with this app, that’s why I recommended it, but being cautious with external services and 3rd party apps is always important.

Have a good day!

[Phal69]

Cannot believe Spotify doesn't allow me to search by genre + popularity + year  + etc.... It's 2025 ffs.

[Phtochic]

Somehow I was able to find songs based on a particular song that showed genres and then I was able to bring up other songs in that genre - as soon  as  I remember how I did that I’ll let you know - but I’m thinking it’s on the song page itself