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Discover Weekly almost only russian, while not listening to any.

Malarowski — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:18:03 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Nothing Phone (1) with Android 14 & Windows 10 computer

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

For the last three weeks, my Discover Weekly has been almost entirely russian "artists", which I have "Disliked" one by one each week and yet next week it's again all the**bleep**.

I listen to virtually 0 russian music. I do listen to a fair amount of Ukrainian music, but that isn't really relevant. Having this russian trash being served is insulting (they shouldn't even be on Spotify, but that's another topic) and pretty much makes Discover Weekly useless. I am left with 2-3 songs after purging lately, which is disappointing. My listening behavior hasn't changed much over the last year or so, but something in the Spotify algorithm must have been tweaked. I hope you're not just looking at Cyrillic letters and grouping music that way.

Please let me either block ruzzian stuff altogether or adjust the logic to not be the opposite of what I tend to listen to. I understand if 1-2 russian songs would sneak in (although really shouldn't be hard to filter that), but the whole playlist is insulting. I am not being served Indian, South American, or Chinese music either, so why russian?

Re: Discover Weekly almost only russian, while not listening to any.

Artistus — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:38:12 GMT

Maybe someone will notice the problem... Just for that. *Going to try Apple Music..

Re: Discover Weekly almost only russian, while not listening to any.

intfis — Wed, 22 May 2024 08:21:44 GMT

It's been a while, but I have the same problem. It started about six months ago, and now at least 50% of Discover Weekly is Russian music, despite the fact that I have never listened to Russian and actively block it. Nothing helps.

Discover Weekly advertise me only russian music. Whats going on?

anatoxa_ua — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:36:44 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Ukraine

Device

Samsung Galaxy S20, Windows Desktop App

Operating System

(Windows 10)

My Question or Issue

I have a Ukrainian interface for Spotify and use Ukrainian IP. I listen only to music from Ukrainian artists in the Ukrainian language. I have subscribed to more than 5500 artists from Ukraine only. So, WHY DID YOU SHOW me 30 of 30 artists from ~~russia~~ in my Discover Weekly?

Is it a paid option for artists to promote music in such a way? What happened with you, Spotify???

Re: Discover Weekly almost only russian, while not listening to any.

SpyGleA — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:52:57 GMT

Hi, I also have this problem. It has been going on almost all year. I have tried to ask for help twice. They provide the same recommendation: "We'd advise to kindly keep listening to your regular music this way the algorithm learns from what you stream on your account"
The whole summer I hid and blocked all russian recommendations, it still did not help not a bit. All what I listen is completely different, but any recommendation at all from that. So I just do not know what to do next. The new - daily playlist - fill up my cup of patience...

Re: Discover Weekly almost only russian, while not listening to any.

justasg007 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:12:29 GMT

Same thing is happening here, too. Looks like there are some ruzzian developers at Spotify that promote music from this neighbour invading, rapist country.