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REVIEW
Spotify on LG webOS is the music-on-a-TV experience LG OLED owners deserve.
Same Spotify, deeper integration with LG's display features, and the rare TV-streaming-music app where the platform-specific touches actually improve the experience.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 8, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Spotify - Music and Podcasts
SPOTIFY
OUR SCORE
8.0
LG
★ 4.3
PRICE
Free
Music on a TV is, for most users, a casual ambient activity — background while cooking, party hosting, or weekend morning routines. The Spotify TV apps across every smart-TV platform handle the use case competently; what’s interesting about Spotify on LG webOS specifically is that the platform-hardware combination produces a meaningfully better experience than the same app on a Roku or Fire TV.
The OLED panel is the differentiator. Album art at full 4K resolution on a high-end LG OLED — the kind of display that makes a difference for HDR video — is also a difference for static album-art display. Source material allowing, the visual experience of “music on the TV” is actively pleasant rather than utilitarian. For users in TV-adjacent listening spaces (kitchens with view of the living-room TV, open-plan home offices), this is a real upgrade.
The Spotify Connect cross-device handoff is the second feature worth highlighting. Walking through the door with a song playing on your phone, then handing off to the TV speakers or attached audio system, is the kind of one-tap interaction that smart-home setups have promised for years and rarely delivered cleanly. Spotify’s Connect protocol works reliably on LG webOS in a way that feels genuinely the future. For Premium subscribers with an LG TV, this is among the best music-on-a-TV experiences the smart-TV market offers in 2026.
Spotify on an LG OLED is the rare TV music app that's better than the phone app for ambient listening.
FEATURES
Spotify on LG webOS is the smart-TV-native client of Spotify's music streaming service. Same catalogue as every other Spotify platform (100M+ tracks, podcasts, audiobooks via the bundled tier in supported regions), same algorithm-driven discovery, same Premium subscription requirements ($11.99/month US Individual, $19.99/month Family).
webOS-specific features: Magic Remote pointing-controls (works well for browsing playlists and album art), full-screen "Now Playing" display that takes advantage of LG OLED's high-resolution panels (album art renders at full 4K resolution where source material allows), and integration with LG's ThinQ AI for voice-driven playback ("ThinQ, play Pink Floyd").
Spotify Connect works from phone-to-LG-TV bidirectionally — start a song on your phone, send to TV, control from either device. The handoff is faster than most TV-streaming-music apps.
Catalogue access tiers: Free (ad-supported, limited skips, mobile shuffle restrictions), Premium ($11.99/month — unrestricted), Family ($19.99/month for six accounts), Student ($5.99/month).
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The full-screen Now Playing display on an LG OLED is the unexpectedly-good experience. Album art rendered at 4K resolution on a high-end OLED panel — vivid colours, deep blacks, sharp edges — is genuinely a different aesthetic from the same album art on a phone. For users who play music in a TV-adjacent space, the visual element of the listening experience is meaningfully upgraded.
Spotify Connect from phone to TV is the killer feature. Start a song while walking through the door, hand off to the TV speakers (or whatever audio system the TV is connected to) without missing a beat. The cross-device control is reliable enough that the phone becomes a Spotify remote for the larger setup.
ThinQ voice search works well for direct queries and reasonably for mood-based or genre queries. Not Apple Music's "Hey Siri" precision but competitive with the alternatives.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Free-tier limitations apply on TV the same way they apply on phone. The shuffle-only restrictions, the ad density, and the lack of on-demand specific-song play make the free tier of Spotify on a TV substantially worse than the Premium tier. Premium is, for any TV-music user, near-mandatory.
Podcast playback is functional but the discovery interface is the phone app's interface translated to TV — not optimized for the longer viewing distance and the directional-pad input. Most users default to the phone for podcast browsing.
TV-mode app refresh occasionally lags behind the iOS/Android versions. New Spotify features (the recent AI DJ improvements, the audiobook-tier expansions in supported regions) reach the LG webOS app weeks-to-months after the mobile clients.
CONCLUSION
Use Spotify on LG webOS if you have an LG TV and Spotify Premium. The visual experience is genuinely better than on phones for ambient listening, the Connect handoff between phone and TV is the smoothest in the smart-TV music category, and the Magic Remote integration is well-suited to Spotify's content-browsing patterns. Free-tier users should expect the same friction here as anywhere else; Premium is worth it.