Spotify reorganizes its weekly discover reading list after ten years

The Spotify Discover Weekly Playlist, which shares new listening recommendations every Monday, receives an update.

Ten years after the beginnings of Discover Weekly (yes, we also feel old), Spotify Premium Users will see new controls at the top of the Playlist, which will allow them to push their recommendations to certain genres. So, if you mainly listen to rock from the 80s, but you start to develop a weak point for K-POP, you can select different gender filters to push algorithmic conservation in the right direction.

This feature is intended to give users a little more control over the types of new music they want to hear their weekly discovers’ reading lists.

According to Spotify, users broadcast more than 100 billion tracks on Discover Weekly, 77% Discover Weekly listens to emerging artists.

To access the news and improved Discover Weekly, Spotify Premium subscribers can access the “Made For You” center, then access their weekly discover reading list. There, if the latest Spotify version is installed, users will be able to see new gender controls.

For an application that may feel massively dominated by algorithmic recommendations, Spotify has recently announced Characteristics intended to give the listener an entry on their listening algorithms. The queue has been reworked, showing what Spotify recommendations to come and allowing users to choose in advance what remains on the bridge. Auditors can also “repeat” songs from which they are tired so that the song is not played for thirty days, but that it will not be hidden for good either.