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Artist recommendations coming to Spotify
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 4 February 2010
Spotify has announced that it is readying a new artist recommendation system, which will cross-reference millions of hours of listening data to help users to discover new music, in a Last.fm stylee. It should start to appear on your Spotify player later this week I think.
In fact, some may already have found their Spotify player updated with the first stage of this, a new dynamic ‘related artists’ tab on artist overview pages, which will suggest similar acts to listen to. Previously the data in this section of the player has been linked to tagging data from AllMusic, meaning it has been fairly limited for many artists.
Erik Bernhardsson, Spotify developer and project leader, told CMU: “Artist recommendations have been fine-tuned meaning music fans can now dig down much deeper into the Spotify catalogue. Improving the way in which Spotify users can discover exciting new artists and music in general, such as by sharing playlists, will play a vital part in Spotify’s continuing evolution. This is only the beginning”.
