Posts by crystalblues

  • How Spotify Playlisting Works In a Small Nutshell

    There are three major types of playlists on Spotify: Spotify editorial playlists, Spotify algorithmic playlists, and listener playlists (playlists that are owned and curated by users on Spotify). It’s important to understand the differences between these three types of playlists.


    1. Spotify Editorial Playlists

    These are playlists that are curated by Spotify’s Shows & Editorial team. This is a team of music experts and genres specialists from around the world, hired by Spotify to curate and manage Spotify’s own playlists. These playlists tend to have large followings, and are typically the first playlists most people think of when discussing playlists on Spotify.


    Many of these playlists are genre-specific – think “RapCaviar”, “Hot Country”, or “Rock This”. Others are more context-driven, such as “Songs to Sing in the Shower”, “Teen Party”, or “Relax & Unwind”.


    Spotify editors often test out new tracks on smaller “feeder” playlists. Tracks that perform well on a playlist like “New Noise” (289K followers) might be promoted to “Rock This” (4.3M followers); songs that gain traction on a playlist such as “Most Necessary” (1.8M followers) might eventually end up on “Rap Caviar” (10.3M followers).


    2. Spotify Algorithmic Playlists

    These playlists are playlists that are automatically created for each Spotify user by Spotify’s own software algorithms. Spotify monitors each user’s music listening habits, and uses this information to produce these highly personalized playlists. Two important algorithmic playlists include “Discover Weekly” and “Release Radar”.


    Discover Weekly

    Discover Weekly is a weekly playlist that’s updated every Monday and unique for every Spotify user. This playlist features music that Spotify thinks that user is likely to enjoy, based on their particular Spotify listening habits. These listening habits might include:


    • any artists/albums/tracks a user likes
    • any artists/albums/tracks a user shares
    • any tracks a user saves to their own playlists
    • any tracks they skip


    Release Radar

    Release Radar is another weekly playlists that’s updated every Friday and unique for every Spotify user. This playlists features new music by artists that Spotify assumes the user currently enjoys, based on their Spotify activity.


    3. Listener Playlists

    Also called user playlists or user-generated playlists, these are playlists that are created and maintained by Spotify users themselves. Users can choose to make their playlists “secret” or “public”. While many Spotify users are simply regular users curating playlists for personal enjoyment, many businesses, companies, public personalities and more also curate their own playlists, usually as a way to extend their branding.





    How each works;


    Spotify editorial playlists have the obvious advantage in terms of follower numbers. Most artists are understandably keen to get a spot on these playlists, and for good reason: a placement on a major playlist like “Your Favorite Coffeehouse” or “Peaceful Piano” can mean hundreds of thousands of new listeners and streams. A word of caution, however: many of these streams tend to be “drive-by” streams. These listeners can often be more passive about their music listening habits; they’re less likely to turn into active, long-term fans.


    Spotify algorithmic playlists can reach a highly targeted audience of listeners who are almost certain to love your music. This can result in a surprisingly large number of streams, particularly for talented artists in less popular genres. Spotify users who listen to playlists like Discover Weekly and Release Radar also tend to be much more engaged, actively searching for music they love. These listeners, while fewer in number, are much more likely to turn into loyal fans.


    Listener playlists can sometimes attract large numbers of followers, and can produce a significant number of listeners and streams for an emerging artist. They also have the potential to influence Spotify’s algorithmic playlists: whenever a user adds your track to their playlist, it provides data to Spotify about the type of music they like. With enough data, Spotify can then recommend that track to other users who have similar listening habits, resulting in long-term audience growth.



    Sometimes labels will send songs over to editors prior to the release of the songs so they can decide if they appear on those playlists on day one of their release or not.


    Independent don't really have that luxury in my experience myself, not even independent artists with followings in the millions as sadly Spotify kinda teeters toward benefitting labels in general (see their current roll out for "supporting real artists first" that they have with Universal Music Group right now).

  • IVE make their much anticipated comeback on April 29. Will they keep their #1 hit streak alive though?

    Quote from YamaChwan

    And I'll have a narrative ready for that outcome :eyes:

    You shouldn't have a "narrative to run with" against an group. That is just weird.

    Quote from YamaChwan

    Certain people were practically begging for this.

    This thread has been people asking you to stop doing this.

    Quote from YamaChwan

    You should never mention my origins as a diehard MooMoo. We dealt with way more disrespect than IVE ever has, and my girls had to work their way up from the actual bottom and prove themselves over and over, unlike IVE

    Mamamoo hasn't gotten near as much hate as IVE in recent times. The most dislike they got was in their first two years of promoting. Mamamoo is basically the neutral space of girl groups. Even the people who may not be huge Stans of them, do not hate them or trash them.


    You are really giving the entire MooMoo and Bunnies fandoms an horrible name in this thread with spewing insults and not even letting people speak an alternate opinion to your own without you resorting immediately to put downs. I've read through this entire thread this morning and it's really sad you feel the need to put people down artist wise or user wise because they don't put the rookies you like up on an untouchable pedestal. Telling people to shut the hell up because they don't immediately bend to your will, throwing tantrums and telling people they aren't allowed to speak on predicting where a group will land on charts (which is what you claim you made the thread for but you clearly made it to try to be a bashing thread) and just over all malice behavior.


    I mean you even have Blinks and Army sitting in here together looking at how far you go to tear down other groups who could "possibly" do well, just because they aren't your group. If the comeback hits and you don't like it just say you don't like it and let it be that, no reason to get angry if other people do or insult them.

  • ★ Twice With You-th Event ★



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    They will be available until next Friday!

  • BTS Badge Event

    Quote from Ibby

    Stunning submissions of V. Except this one. Not that it's not stunning,but it's V's current badge in the shop. I'm displaying it now lol it's zoomed out a bit but same pic.

    :ak_hayanglul: I guess I should have looked at my badges before making new ones ooops :ak_jisootrigerred: