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Spotify adds stats to artist profiles
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 18 September 2015
Spotify has announced an update to the currently fairly rubbish biography pages that appear on the service’s artist profiles. The updated pages will now feature all kinds of stats about how an artist is being listened to on Spotify itself.
As well as being able to read biographies and look at pictures, you’ll now also see information on monthly listeners, the artist’s global rank that month, which playlists people are discovering the artist in, and which cities are most into the artist’s music.
So those are all things that might be mildly interesting for a few seconds. I’m sure everyone in the music industry will be pleased to see this information being added, rather than full credits for the people involved in the record beyond the featured artist. Then again, perhaps the industry itself needs to get better at providing that data.
