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I'd like to remove a song from my history

bohizera — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:25:18 GMT

The app played this particular song over and over again overnight and I'd very much like to remove it completely from my history as I don't really listen to that artist and it always pops up as the most listened song on my Spotify every single time. It's "As it was" by Harry Styles.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

Lyubka — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:01:21 GMT

Hey there,

Thank you for reaching out here in the Community.

Listening history consists of the songs that you've listened to in the past and it's currently not possible to remove or delete items from this section.

We'd suggest that you try to discover new music - you can use the Radio feature or head to Search and choose a category where you'll find a lot of playlists made by Spotify, which you might like 🙂

While there's currently no way to manually delete songs from Recently played history - we'd recommend you leave your vote to this idea here if this is something you'd like to see implemented in the future. The more votes an Idea gets, the more likely it is to get implemented.

If you're interested in how ideas work and how your feedback reaches the right teams here, check this page out.

Hope this helps. If you need anything else, the Community is here for you.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

FixtheissuesPLEAZE — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:17:18 GMT

How would this have helped ??? Be so fr rn. We just want to be able to CONTROL our OWN listening history.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

jameslmorrison — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 02:28:03 GMT

I absolutely hate this. Going to look at other music providers and probably cancel my account after more than 10 years.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

jameslmorrison — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 02:34:57 GMT

And to top it off, im called a "newbie" by this site.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

g1patnaik — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:08:15 GMT

I've listened to a couple of moaning songs, now I'm scared if it pops up again when someone is around 🤦🏽‍♂️God!!!

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

svartorn — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:00:58 GMT

Absolutely infuriating. I can go through my Youtube history and just X away the history of stuff I don't want impacting my recommendations but I can't on Spotify? I had autoplay turned off and it decided to autoplay a bunch of pop country garbage and now my recommendations are pop country. All I want to do is delete this play history, jfc.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

timmmaay — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 16:57:32 GMT

My partner has been polluting my played songs using the Google speaker, which had my Spotify connected, so discovery is a complete mess. History deletion is very desirable as right now, with the algorithm being based on incorrect data, Spotify really isn’t any better than Apple Music so I’m weighing up my options now.

Recently Played Tracks effect your suggested list, so how do we remove a track?

cdpage — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:25:44 GMT

On a road trip we shared my phone in the car. Each person played a song starting with the next letter. Some were Fan fav's some were jokes. most were not my style of music.

While I can live with a good mix of music, some of the Joke tracks were TERRIBLE.

How do i remove them from my history? I don't want suggestions like these!

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

yarri876 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 04:34:04 GMT

This. Had ASMR playing for hours without my knowledge and now that's all my DJ will try play. 🤦🏼‍♀️ We need a way to at least exclude specific music from the DJ options or something please.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

kristinhope79 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:46:22 GMT

My kids listened to something on my account and now I'm stuck with annoying songs that I can't get rid of. As often as I click to skip the songs, it should at least learn that I'm not interested in those songs anymore. I hope something is done to help remedy this issue, it's very frustrating.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

IraVehementi95 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:55:39 GMT

I always mis-tap songs when I try to tap the three dots and it infuriates me how you guys removed the option to remove a song from your listening history. We get that you guys want us to listen to new stuff but it's annoying that we're paying for a feature you used to provide and we never even asked you to remove in the first place. And y'all not following user feedbacks will mess you up on the long run, just saying.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

user-removed — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:36:03 GMT

No, they want to keep you trapped in their discovery algo.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

TechCF — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:46:49 GMT

This need to come back. There are denial of service attacks where large movies as podcast episodes render Volvo Sensus Spotify player unusable.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

Fred2440 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:21:50 GMT

I listened to some things in private and they get played as suggestions and they aren’t for all ears I need to be able to delete songs . You could listen to a song someone suggested and not like it and then get suggestions on it. Common Spotify fix this!

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

symbyte — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 20:56:45 GMT

Not being able to remove songs from your history is awful not only because of the edge cases listed in this thread but it would be trivial to just let us do it. Stop being sleezy about this and restore the functionality that already existed for years.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

NightC142 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:01:50 GMT

TL;DR: FIX THIS ISSUE PLEASE I ALMOST GOT FIRED NO JOKE

Yeah so I made the mistake of turning the sound off after listening to a bunch of weird af songs like cpr with my friend bc she was like “what you’ve never heard of these?” And it looped the queue or something, because now my DJ wants to play that **bleep** at work so I straight up cannot use it or let my playlists end at all bc it auto plays similar nsfw songs! Did not even think this would be something I had to deal with because literally every other music provider I’ve ever used has had an easy “delete item from history” option. Good to know before I listen to a bunch of videogame osts lol

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

zthumper — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:37:07 GMT

Love spotify but not allowing users to remove songs is a horrible UX decision. Wonder what brilliant product team idea this is a part of.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

Slapgravel — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:32:02 GMT

I now just default to never playing any mix Spotify suggests for me. I mostly just search playlists made by other people that have tracks I like in.

Re: I'd like to remove a song from my history

Grismar — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:47:29 GMT

I need this so much. Whenever Google Assistant misunderstands a request and Spotify plays a song I didn't want to hear, it makes it into the history and shows up on other Spotify apps (like my TV one). I just want to be able to open the history and swipe it out - it's OK if the author still gets my 'play', but Spotify shouldn't use it for my recommendations, and I never want to hear it again until I ask for it, or it's an actual recommendation.