A single Spotify playlist can hold a maximum of 10,000 songs or tracks.
The limit applies to each individual playlist, so users who reach it can create additional playlists instead of adding more tracks to the same one. For listeners building giant collections, this makes playlist organization important: separate playlists might be divided by genre, decade, mood, artist, or listening activity.
The playlist limit is often confused with Spotify’s music-library limit. Spotify once capped a user’s saved library at 10,000 songs, but removed that restriction in May 2020 after years of complaints. The playlist cap remained, meaning a user can save more than 10,000 songs overall while still being unable to place more than 10,000 tracks in one playlist.
Spotify also has separate offline-download restrictions. Those limits concern how many songs can be downloaded and on how many devices, not how many tracks a playlist can contain. In practical terms, 10,000 is the playlist-specific ceiling, while the broader library can be much larger.