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Spotify is expanding its Managed Accounts for young listeners, giving kids their own listening profiles, recommendations and—most importantly—their own Spotify Wrapped.
That means hours of children’s music, movie soundtracks and that one song your kid insists on playing 75 times a day no longer have to completely hijack your year-end listening recap.
According to Spotify, managed accounts keep a young listener’s music activity separate from their parent’s account, allowing both to build their own listening history and recommendations.
Spotify even puts it pretty perfectly: “the days of schoolyard singalongs dominating your Wrapped are over.”
Honestly, parents everywhere just won Spotify Wrapped 2026.
Kids Get Their Own Spotify Experience
Managed accounts aren’t just about saving your Wrapped.
Young listeners receive their own personalized recommendations, including Made For You mixes and daylist, while parents and guardians retain control over what they can access.
Parents can restrict explicit content and specific artists or songs, while managed profiles are private and can’t be searched for or followed by other Spotify users.
And when Wrapped season arrives, kids get their own recap based on their listening, while Mom and Dad’s questionable music habits can finally speak for themselves.
Spotify has also expanded managed accounts beyond Premium Family. The company announced earlier this year that the experience is available through its free, ad-supported tier as well, opening the feature to more families.
Already Sharing an Account? There’s Another Option
For anyone who doesn’t want to create a separate managed account, Spotify already offers another useful tool: Exclude from your taste profile.
Users can select a track or playlist and tell Spotify to give those listens less influence over recommendations and taste summaries.
According to Spotify Support, streams from excluded tracks or playlists won’t appear in Wrapped stories or data points such as Top Songs or Top Artists, although they still count toward total listening time.
So yes, you can finally exclude the kids’ playlist.
Or your sleep playlist.
Or that guilty-pleasure song you absolutely do not need Spotify exposing to everyone on Instagram in December.
Your Wrapped. Your rules.
Check out Spotify’s managed accounts homepage and parental guide to learn more.
