Spotify’s Discover Weekly Playlist, which shares new listening recommendations every Monday, is getting an update.
Ten years after Discover Weekly’s debut (yes, we feel old too), Spotify Premium users will see new controls at the top of their playlists, allowing them to push recommendations to specific genres. So if you’re primarily listening to rock from the 80s, but are beginning to develop a soft spot for K-Pop, you can choose a different genre filter and push the algorithmic curation in the right direction.
This feature is intended to give users a little more control over the new music they most want to hear from the weekly playlists they discover.
According to Spotify, users stream over 100 billion tracks on Discover Weekly, with 77% of Discover Weekly listening from emerging artists.
To access the newly improved Discover Weekly, Spotify Premium subscribers can go to the Made for You hub and then to Discover Weekly Playlist. There, if the latest Spotify version is installed, users can see the new genre controls.
For apps that are dominated by algorithmic recommendations, Spotify recently announced a feature intended to input listeners into listening algorithms. The queue has been improved to show which Spotify recommendations are coming, allowing users to pre-select what will stay on the deck. Listeners can also “snooze” songs they’re tired of, so the songs won’t play for 30 days, or they won’t be hidden.
