AI Watchdog: Spotify Tracks Dataset

Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into how music tracks are taken to train AI tools. This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.

A collection of 114,000 music tracks ripped from Spotify. The dataset was assembled by an unknown AI developer on Hugging Face. It has been downloaded more than 70,000 times as of May 2026. Spotify has no affiliation with this dataset.