Spotify Newsletter #148

Your Weekly Dose of Spotify News

Feb 10

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Hello — Welcome to the latest edition of the Spotify Newsletter!

That’s right….. More DIY Spotify artwork on display. Actual artistic people are encouraged to send along their Spotify-inspired art to have it displayed on a future newsletter issue.

Here we are, yet another week loaded with solid news.

Perhaps the ‘biggest’ news was the debut of a new feature called ‘Exclude from your Taste Profile’. It lets you choose playlists that you don’t want affecting your personalized recommendations.

Users with kids who like to rock out to Sesame Street jams can now have the option to jettison those tunes from their personal playlists/algorithms.

Definitely a big win!

A big thanks to all the new subscribers for joining the Friday Spotify rundown, plus an extra big thanks to the longtime readers who continue to support the endeavour.

Have a nice day everybody! And a nice nice nice weekend!

★In the SPOTlight★

⭐️ Emerging Trend: The rise of the hyper-specific Spotify playlist

The rise of the hyper-specific listener playlist on Spotify is a poorly documented phenomenon. In this post, I’ll attempt to identify this trend and better define it.

⭐️ Spotify asked how to improve Artists, Album Pages & it’s not too late to tell them

Chris Stoneman, a product exec at Spotify, told the Twitterverse that his team “is spending lots of time right now on how we might improve the Artist & Album Pages” and asked, “What do you want to see?”

⭐️ Inside Spotify’s Star-Studded Best New Artist Party

The annual event remains the only place to see every best new artist nominee on one stage in one night.

⭐️ Spotify’s third-party billing option has now reached over 140 global markets

In its fourth-quarter earnings, Spotify announced today its User Choice Billing program has now expanded to more than 140 markets worldwide, allowing the streaming music service to reduce the commissions it pays to Google over Play Store purchases associated with its Android app.

⭐️ Drake Wants Artists to ‘Get Bonuses Like Athletes’ When They Reach Spotify Streaming Milestones

“We should get bonuses like athletes to motivate the future artists to be consistent and competitive,” he wrote in an Instagram Story resharing a graphic that looks to be from Spotify, but which the streamer does not appear to have shared on its official accounts. “So feel free to send me a LeBron sized cheque[,] I have enough dinner plates.”