Spotify’s discovered playlist, which shares new listening recommendations every Monday, receives an update.
Ten years after the Discover Weekly debut (yes, we also feel old), Spotify Premium users will see new controls at the top of the playlist, which allow them to push their recommendations to some genres. So, if you mostly listen to a rock from the 80s, but you start developing a soft spot for a k-pop, you can choose different genre filters to push the algorithmic treatment in the right direction.
This feature aims to give users a little more control of what new music they want to hear from their discovered weekly game lists.
According to Spotify, users have flown over 100 billion tracks on Discover Weekly, with 77% of Discover Weekly listens to emerging artists.
To access the new-and-enhanced discovered week, Spotify Premium subscribers can navigate to the hub “Made For You”, then navigate to its discovered weekly game list. There, if the latest version of Spotify is installed, users will be able to see the new genre controls.
For an app that can feel overwhelmingly dominated by algorithmic recommendations, Spotify has Recently announced Features oriented to give the listener insert their listening algorithms. The tail has been renewed, showing what Spotify’s recommendations come and allows users to choose in advance what stays on deck. Listeners can also “snooze” songs, of which they are tired, so that the song does not play for thirty days, but will not be hidden for well either.
