How to remove songs from Spotify playlist that Spotify added

How to remove a song from a playlist on Spotify on desktop

Start by opening the Spotify app on your desktop. Navigate to the playlist — from your homescreen, from the sidebar, or by searching for it — that you want to delete a song from.

1. Click on the three dots next to the song you want to remove to open a drop-down menu.

2. Click "Remove from this Playlist."

You can also right-click to remove a song from your playlist.Marissa Perino/Business Insider

It'll be deleted immediately.

How to remove a song from a playlist on Spotify on mobile

Start by opening the Spotify app on your iPhone or Android device, and navigate to the playlist that you want to delete a song from.

1. Tap on the three dots next to the song you want to remove to open a pop-up menu.

Tap the three dots to open a menu.Marissa Perino/Business Insider

2. Tap "Remove from this Playlist."

This will remove the song from your playlist.Marissa Perino/Business Insider

The pop-up will close, and the song will disappear from your playlist.

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Stop Spotify from Adding Songs to Your Playlist

There can be various things going on. In some cases, songs are added to your customized playlist as well, and in case this is a curated playlist by Spotify, they will continue to add songs to the playlist as you keep listening.

  • There is an auto-play feature that keeps adding more songs to a playlist you’re listening to, which can be disabled.
  • You can disable or turn off this auto-play similar songs feature by clicking on the down arrow next to the profile name. Then, go to ‘Settings>Autoplay’ and toggle it off.
  • One other way to stop Spotify (https://www.spotify.com/) from adding songs to a curated playlist is also by moving all the songs to another new playlist of your own manually.

Get Started

Get Started

To begin, sign up for one of Spotify's two subscription options: a free, ad-supported account or a Premium version, which costs $9.99 per month. Then download theSpotify appon your devices. You can create a playlist on mobile devices or on your computer using its web player; they'll sync up across devices.

On desktop, you can listen to any song by any artist and can skip ahead or go back to a previous song to play it, whether you have the free or paid version (the free version will interrupt with ads, though).

But those with the free version can only shuffle-play their own playlists on mobile. Spotifyoffers15 "self-driving" playlists—including Daily Mixes,Discover Weekly, and Release Radar—that allow those on the free tier to play songs in any order with unlimited skips. Premium users can listen to all playlists in any order with unlimited skips, and download their playlists for offline listening, like on a plane or in the subway.

Playlist creation differs slightly on free and Premium subscriptions; here's how to get started on both versions.