PLEASE let us turn off personalized playlists!! I want to listen to new music!!

[ei19]

Is there any way to turn off the MADE FOR YOU feature that appears in every playlist/radio spotify provides now. I used to be able to select and artist I liked and listen to their radio station to find more artists like them, now, half of them are artists I already know/are hardly similar. It’s become an echo chamber. When I play music at parties, I want to select a neutral playlist like “dinner party” that caters to the theme, not me. None of my friends want to solely listen to Taylor Swift and Boygenius and Olivia Rodrigo during a dinner party. My music library doesn’t make for much crowd pleasing diversity, which is why I would like to use playlists and artist radios to diversify. But instead spotify just feeds the same artists back to me. This has started ruining my experience and use of Spotify and I am considering ending my subscription. Is it so hard to make it optional to have playlists be “Made for you” ???

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Premium

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USA

[user-removed]

The Algorithm is going to go with the artist that has a lot of play and traction regardless of genre; this is one of the new changes that has happened this year with Spotify.  The best thing you can do is make a playlist yourself (try not to exceed 4 hours) and "Train" the algorithm to associating the songs of artists you want to hear with like artists so it won't keep diverting you back to Taylor Swift.

If you look at our Radio Station https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4ycRqsZvbOVs?si=73771f958aad41b0 you may see Taylor Swift you may not; every person's Radio shows something different on that Artist Radio Station based on the algorithm mining your tastes.

Hope that made sense.

[ei19]

I guess the issue is that I don’t KNOW what artists I want to listen to because I don’t know them yet. I want spotify to show me something of the same genre of that particular artist, without considering what I listen to. The only thing that matters is I want more of one particular band. The moment I have anything remotely similar in my library, Spotify will feed it back to me.

Here’s an example: I love the band Sleigh Bells, would love to find more artists like them. When I go to their artist radio, from the 50 songs in that playlist, I only don’t know 9 of them (6 artists in total that I don’t listen to, and who knows if they’re that similar either). All artists are already in my library, while they may have similarities, they are surely not the most similar to Sleigh Bells out there (I got song from Purity Ring, Vampire Weekend, and Cold War Kids to name some)

How can I make a playlist to train the algorithm to show me more when I don’t know who to put in that playlist in the first place? That’s why I go to the artist radio in the first place. Why build in extra steps to try and train a robot?! It feels like Spotify overcomplicated things drastically, the old radio function that showed everyone the same thing based on one artist worked and is what we wanted.

As far as I understand there is no function to turn it off, so I guess I’m just asking and requesting that this function is implemented, I have seen countless other posts here discussing the same.

Hope that clarifies things.

[user-removed]

Since Spotify doesn't necessarily pair artists based on genre but on popularity because the algorithm doesn't understand like a human how songs can fall under multiple genres and tends to go with one, 9x out of 10 it will no longer show you the same genre of said artist, but will show you artists that have been associated with the artist you are listening to. Spotify doesn't encourage just listening to the one band, and does not count multiple plays of a lone artists' songs past 2 in a 24 hour period (as the algorithm will automatically think it is a bot and not count the stream).

When you go to an artist radio the playlist is based on the popularity and streams of a group of artists and not their genre. The best thing you can do is try to use the band that you like and see what playlists they have been on and follow them from there. If they are fortunate to have "Fans Like" that is half the battle, but as of 2024 mostly only Universal/Sony and their subsidiaries artist have that and all the indies have lost it.

Artist radio is not about the artist, and as I said before shows a different playlist per user. No 2 users will have the same radio as the artist radio is truly based on how the algorithm has assumed your personal taste. Alternatively you can check Spotify playlists or playlists made by users in the search function and do the checking the long hard way.  There really isn't any other option with their new changes.

[Helaellela]

I have the same problem I used to discover a lot of artists and songs and now because of this « made for you » feature I can’t anymore . Spotify if you see this you need to go back to the old algorithm this new one sucks 

[andykl]

THIS. I'm trying to find new music, and every playlist already has songs I listen to in it. What's going on? How do I find new music?

[bunnyfish]

Completely agree.  I would like to see an option to disable personalized playlists.  I feel like the vast majority of playlist options are "made for..." now.  This puts my music in an echo chamber and I just get the same songs and slight variations over and over. I want to browse human-generated playlists by default, not rehashes of songs I've already heard many time overs.  

[mwascher]

The same Morgan Wallen / Post Malone song is in every single song radio I create. wth. I started a song radio for "Upside Down" by Jack Johnson, which my son loves. AND THERE IS POST MALONE AGAIN.

I want to listen to songs that are similar to the song I'm feeling in this moment. I know how to play songs that I already like. I know how to create a playlist. When I start a song radio I expect the music to be chosen for me, based on the song. Period. Guess I'll go back to Pandora?

[thatsbogan]

My advice would be to research "tastemakers", artists and DJs who you think share similar tastes to you and see if they publish playlists on Spotify. There are also a few email newsletters that share and recommend songs.

This is exactly what music magazines and speciality radio shows in the evenings are for. My optimistic self hopes that as the algorithm gets worse and worse we will move back towards human curated playlists.

[tristancce]

Does that not feel incredibly unnecessary? Why would I research "tastemakers," when I can just put up with YouTube Music's horrible UI?