Spotify’s Premium Family plan just got a big upgrade for parents – and it could save their Spotify Wrapped too

• Spotify is expanding managed accounts for its Premium Family plan following a successful pilot run
• Parent guardian account managers will be able to enable controls for younger listeners, including explicit content filters and specific song restrictions
• It also adds an extra layer of protection to your individual Spotify Wrapped results

Spotify is making changes to its Premium Family plan, and is expanding managed accounts (the music streaming service’s Premium accounts for younger listeners) into seven new locations, including the US, UK, and Australia.

Managed accounts launched in three regions last year, and later expanded to seven more. Following that successful pilot run, Spotify is now bringing it to another seven new territories: the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

Though managed accounts have only been part of Spotify’s subscription ecosystem for a year, they’ve become a highly requested feature, hence the company’s decision to roll them out more widely.

One of Spotify’s aims is to give listeners aged 13 years and younger room to explore their own music tastes, and listen to their favorite artists with parental controls in place. They can also take advantage of other popular features such as playlist-making, Daylist, and the revamped Discover Weekly, just like any standard Spotify subscriber. Interactivity features will come with some restrictions, though. For example, Spotify Messages is age-gated.