topic Re: "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" gets its song order changed randomly in Your Library

My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:38:29 GMT

My discover weekly updated twice in one week? I want my discover weekly back from last week. This new one is fine but I wasn’t done with the old one. It’s like getting halfway through a good steak and the waiter comes over takes it from you and gave you a pork chop. Like yea I like this but I wasn’t done lmao

"Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" gets its song order changed randomly

alliha — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:17:46 GMT

This is a bit of bizarre issue; sometimes my Discover Weekly and Release Radar will get updated after the initial weekly update. Usually it's the same songs (with a few exceptions here and there), but the order has been shuffled around for seemingly no reason.

This wouldn't really be a problem, but sometimes I don't listen through the entire thing in one go and would like to start wherever I left off. Then I can see that my "Recently Played" do not match up with the current order of the playlist in question. It seems to be most prevalent shortly after the list has been created/updated for the week, so that if I listen to it at night as soon as it has happened, it is usually wrong next time

Re: "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" gets its song order changed randomly

OscarDC — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:15:32 GMT

Hey @alliha,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community and welcome.

That's an odd behavior since the playlists made for you should stay the same between updates. So in this case, to make sure everything is up to date, we'd first recommend performing a clean reinstall of the app by following the steps in this article.

After that, we'd also recommend changing the sorting order of those playlist to "Custom order" or "Recently added" to see if it makes any difference. You can check how to Sort and filter your playlists here.

Hope this helps. Let us know how it goes.

Re: "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" gets its song order changed randomly

alliha — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:21:28 GMT

Hi there!

Pardon the late reply, but I'm finally back after the holiday break and will try these solutions - if they don't work I'll update the thread with screenshots of it in action. Thank you, @OscarDC, for your help so far!

Re: "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" gets its song order changed randomly

Mandres2233 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:40:57 GMT

Same issue with my release radar, it gets updated 2 to 3 times a week with the order of songs reshuffled.
Have tried re-installing, as this issue has been going on for some time now, but it continues to happen.

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

void_ah — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:47:41 GMT

Same thing happened to me. I was listening to it while at work and then I played it in my car on the way home and it was different. I listened to every song thinking when are there gonna be the good ones that I listened to a few hours ago? THEY WERE GONE AND I'M EXTREMELY DISTURBED AND SAD!

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

jacksonmarriner — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:54:06 GMT

me too...shame. I had liked two of the first few songs and was circling back only to see they were all gone

Discover weekly playlist changed midweek

Outlander1 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 05:16:10 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Egypt

Device

Xiaomi note 10 lite

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

I was really enjoying the discover weekly playlist for this week, but it changed midweek on Friday . I use Spotify on my Android phone and from time to time on my windows 11 laptop.

I tried logout/login twice in a row but it didn't work.

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

RBRT02 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:52:12 GMT

Same here, but I also noticed how on Friday some more changes happened. Some songs got replaced AGAIN.

Re: Discover weekly changing midweek

Sethyboi28 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:40:01 GMT

I came here for the same reason just for my discover weekly to change for the 3rd time this week while reading this. It’s really getting annoying as I’ve missed out on a lot of good songs due to this

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

MihailY — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 08:01:02 GMT

Hey folks,

Thanks for reaching out.

We can confirm that this week's Discover Weekly playlist got refreshed mid-week due to some backend maintenance. This can happen if there're some improvements we think we can make, but shouldn't happen often. Apologies if this has caused you any inconvenience!

Rest assured, the usual update schedule has not changed and you'll see your Discover Weekly update again as per usual every Monday.

Cheers,

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

Berkhan_mirroreye — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:48:08 GMT

Yo man thanks for the reply but it happened again today to me. It is the 3th discover weekly im getting this week and i dont like to miss out on new songs please make it so it refreshes on monday

Re: Discover weekly changed midweek, while I was listening to it

Stig — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:36:01 GMT

Any progress on this issue?? It happens several times a week for me

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

astromesut — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:25:27 GMT

Yeah, my Discover Weekly playlist has also changed 4 times the past 2 days lol. Tho, I suspect it's switching between 2 playlists every time I open the apps (Android and Windows).

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

Berkhan_mirroreye — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:28:17 GMT

Its like discover daily now

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

kappeuter — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:48:35 GMT

My Discover Weekly changed for the third time this week. Some songs stayed in the list, but most of them got updated.

Re: "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" gets its song order changed randomly

alliha — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:33:27 GMT

It did it again, and I finally caught screenshots of it happening! As you can see, one is from friday feb 21st and the other from sunday feb 23rd. On friday I even hid one entry, as it's not really a song but an intermission in a longer playlist, but it's back on sunday!

edit: as you can see, the list is sorted by custom order and this is on a fresh spotify-install. (Last freshly installed beginning of february)

edit 2: IT HAPPENED AGAIN! This next screenshot is from monday 24th of february:

Release Radar order keeps changing. How to stop this?

attackmonkeygo — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:03:11 GMT

Recently, over the last couple of months, my Release Radar playlist keeps changing around, and it's very annoying. Have I accidentally changed a setting? I thought it was just adding new songs, but now it seems to be swapping them out.

I usually listen in half-hour chunks, but if the playlist keeps changing, it becomes useless for me. Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

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

My Question or Issue

Re: My discover weekly updated today (Thursday) after its update on Monday

analoguerob — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:44:17 GMT

This happens constantly, with any playlist curated by Spotify. I've never managed to play an entire Spotify-curated playlist in one session, so I'm always playing them a few songs at a time, and in years of using the platform on many different types of device I've never encountered any behaviour other than this. The playlist has always been re-sorted and the order is always different when I go back, even if the same individual song that I was playing is still cued up in the same place. Spotify-curated playlists are constantly changing, in other words, from one day to the next, and if you like one, the best thing to do is to make a copy of it and then ignore the original!
Spotify staff, this is a very annoying bug, and anything you can do to fix it would be very much appreciated.

Re: "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" gets its song order changed randomly

koroch — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:12:16 GMT

It keeps happening WEEKLY. So nothing to do with clean reinstalls or sorting order. Why the list keeps changing??!?!