Summary
- Spotify’s Discover Weekly now offers genre filters for personalized playlists.
- Discover Weekly celebrates 10 years with over 100 billion tracks served.
- Spotify gives premium users more control over their listening experience.
Discover Weekly has been a Monday morning staple and a tentpole of Spotify’s many “Made For You” playlists for a decade. However, sometimes those recommendations veer a little off course, and it’s finally getting some much-needed user controls.
Spotify is rolling out new genre filters at the top of your Discover Weekly playlist. Previously, you were limited to just one static list of songs every week. It was personalized to your listening, but it could be a pretty big grab bag of music. With the filters, you can nudge the algorithm in the direction you want, guiding it to find new music that fits your current mood. It essentially gives you multiple Discover Weekly playlists to enjoy. In my testing, I had five genres to choose from at the top of the playlist.
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Spotify also shared some stats about Discover Weekly to celebrate its 10th anniversary. It’s served up over 100 billion tracks in that time, and 77% of those streams have gone to what Spotify calls “emerging artists.” Two million times each week, people find a new artist through Discover Weekly and end up listening to them a second time. Over 550 million tracks have been saved and liked from Discover Weekly.
To try out the new genre filters, you’ll need to be a Spotify Premium subscriber. If you are, you can just head over to the “Made for You” hub and find your Discover Weekly playlist. As long as you have the latest version of Spotify installed, those new genre controls should be waiting for you right there. Tap a genre and watch the playlist songs change to match it.
This move is part of a larger trend at Spotify to give you more power over your listening experience. They’ve recently revamped the queue to show you upcoming recommendations, and they’ll soon have a feature that I’ve been wanting for a long time: a “snooze” option for songs you’re tired of, without banishing them forever.
Source: TechCrunch
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