Spotify adds meditation to Fitness hub, expands wellness classes with Peloton

Spotify just put meditation next to Peloton inside the same app people already use for playlists and podcasts, making Fitness with Spotify feel less like a side feature and more like a daily wellness shortcut. The new hub landed on April 27 and folds yoga, stretching, strength, cardio, Pilates, barre, outdoor running and walking, and meditation into one place, with no special equipment required.

The catalog is built around more than 1,400 ad-free on-demand Peloton classes for Premium users in supported markets, and Spotify said the section can be found by searching “fitness” inside the app on mobile, desktop, or TV devices. That matters because it puts a short breathing session, a mat workout, or a guided stretch block one step away from the same screen where users already queue music for a commute, a break, or a reset between meetings.

Spotify is leaning hard on behavior it already sees. The company said nearly 70% of Premium users work out monthly, and more than 150 million fitness playlists are active globally. Fitness and workout lists are also among the top use cases for its Prompted Playlists feature, which helps explain why the company is treating wellness less like a niche add-on and more like a mainstream habit it can build into the core product.

Peloton gets a wider stage out of the deal. The partnership is global and available in most countries where Spotify operates, giving Peloton instructors access to hundreds of millions of Spotify Premium subscribers. At launch, the hub also included independent wellness creators alongside Peloton, signaling that Spotify is not limiting the category to one brand or one style of training.

For mindfulness users, the real shift is simple: meditation is no longer tucked away in a standalone app that asks for a separate habit. It now sits beside the same cardio, strength, and yoga content many users already browse, which lowers the friction around taking a five- or ten-minute practice seriously. Spotify’s move also shows how aggressively streaming platforms are chasing wellness as a product category, not just a content lane, and meditation is now part of that push.