Hello and welcome to the latest Spotify Newsletter. Thanks for reading! Lots of interesting news to peruse this week.

No official date yet for Spotify Wrapped, but the articles are beginning to drip out, ramping up the anticipation of the annual feature that nicely rounds up our year in music and podcasts. Be ready!

★In the SPOTlight★

⭐️ Spotify launches new charts site with expanded popularity rankings

You can find the most popular songs and artists globally, in your country, in your city or in your favorite genre, plus detailed stats like streaks and peak position.

⭐️ Spotify finally lets you block other users

Until now, you had to go through customer service.

⭐️ Spotify’s Fresh Finds Program Is a Pledge to Independent Artists

Music streaming can often be a dilemma for up-and-coming artists. It’s incredibly difficult to have a ‘break through’ moment unless you have impressive streaming numbers, but it’s a challenge to achieve those numbers unless you’ve had a breakthrough moment.

⭐️ Spotify now frustratingly defaults to autoplay for connected devices

Spotify quietly updated its autoplay feature with a seriously frustrating quirk. When you play music on your Spotify Connect devices, autoplay is now enabled by default and there’s no way to turn it off.

⭐️ When will Spotify Become and Stay Profitable

Spotify’s business is at a key inflection point, where they must find a way to provide sustainable cash flows to investors.

🗣Podcast Action🗣

Spotify's 'Music + Talk' shows capture the magic of early podcasts

Spotify says US podcast listeners now use its service more than Apple Podcasts

Spotify And Mass Appeal Announce ‘The Bridge’ Podcast Hosted By Nas And Miss Info

🎧The Playlist List🎧

Latin tracks are streamed over 20bn times a month on Spotify

Your Spotify Wrapped 2021 is embarrassing and there’s nothing you can do about it

Researchers analyzed 700-plus songs known to give people chills. Here’s the playlist

🔥Even More Hot News Links🔥

Daniel Ek’s investment group announces first bet in defence startup Helsing

How Spotify and Amazon are using A.I. to learn your preferences

How Spotify royalties actually work

Storybooth Animates Teens’ Tales On YouTube. Now It’s Expanding To Spotify

🎵New Adventures in Spotify🎵

The Last Time - Remastered Version Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart

Face Down In The Moment Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Power of My Love Elvis Presley

Waiting for That Day - Remastered George Michael

Stargazer Frank Sinatra

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!!! 😀