Why is Spotify Putting Songs From the 90s(!!) in Release Radar

[sem000]

"Cornflake Girl" from Tori Amos was on my release radar today, from the album "Sounds of the 90s."

Is anyone else seeing this? "Welcome to the Black Parade" is not a new release wth are y'all doing. 

Wondering if my release radar is broken or if Spotify is messing around with something better left in the head of some apparently drunken employee that fell down the stairs and also has a concussion. 

Cornflake Girl is the OPPOSITE of new music lol. 

What are we doing....

[user-removed]

Seems to be endless old tracks from compilations. I have to scroll through 10 songs before I see an actual new release.

[sem000]

I'm so mad, lol, what is this is BS. Cornflake Girl was released 31 years ago. 

There are playlists like "Best Roadtrip Bangers" and "Songs For Feeling Nostalgic"

Support chat is trying to tell me these "newly released" playlists count as new releases. This is the first week these have been in my playlist, and if I wanted to support a streaming service with a horrible, useless algorithm I'll leave spotify and rejoin Tidal, which has way better sound quality. The main value on Spotify is its discovery algorithm, BRO, YOU CANNOT TELL ME WELCOME TO THE BLACK PARADE IS A NEW RELEASE. 

@Spotify fix your sh*t srsly...

Look at this absolute donkey of a playlist they served me...

[sid8102]

Same thing happened to me. It looks like these record companies are putting compilations together  and releasing them as albums so they pop up on these types of playlists. Is there anyone we can contact?

[sem000]

i yelled about it on chat, but they couldn't do much to help, obviously. i hope they pass along that people are mad and will make a change.

[missstacey84]

Also happened to my playlist. Half of them are old songs, I hate it! 

[nickviner]

very annoying

[Ikeaner]

Came here to complain about this too. These types of "Compilations" (I thought we had Playlists for that?) should definitely not show up in the release radar. I don't think that X5 Music Group company should be allowed to create these anyways, it just clogs up the system; But it definitely shouldn't be in the release radar.

[Castal]

I also came here to complain about this. Today's Discover Weekly is about 50% old songs, with albums called "The Sound of the 00s," "Songs for Feeling Nostalgic," "Rock - The New Loud," "Best Roadtrip Bangers," and "Iced Mocha Latte." I loved Discover Weekly for helping me keep track of new music with the occasional remaster. I don't want to see the usual old, unchanged songs in there.

[missstacey84]

It looks like they’ve removed all of those from my Release Radar. Are yours still there? 

[ARCBLST]

This stuff is still happening. I don't know about you guys, but I don't 'Follow' that many artists, because I listen to way too much music by way too many different people. I don't need 60000 updates or recommendations for the music I'm already listening to.

That being said, my release radar is **bleep** because of this fact. Constantly getting 10, 15, 20 year old songs put in there like "hey bet you didn't know about this SECRET INDIE NEW RELEASE called "I Write Sins Not Tragedies". Like honey, Spotify baby, I'm much older than you. I was listening to these "releases" before you were born.

It happens in my Discover Weekly as well, but I'm more lenient with it. It's still completely absurd and annoying, that the music it wants me to discover, are some of the biggest hits from [insert genre here] from [insert year here], that I have heard 100s of times before. Like fair enough, I haven't listened to Seether on this spotify account - that doesn't mean that I want to 'discover' that song from 20 years ago... 

Then all the "new music for you" is filled with **bleep** I don't even listen to!

Spotify Enshitification 2025.

[ShirleyMarquez]

The only ones I have notices on my Release Radar recently are new remixes, or old songs that weren't previously available (like all the archive recordings of Melanie that her estate has been releasing). I'm OK with those because those are things I haven't heard before. But songs that are just reissues on compilations don't belong in Release Radar; that's what Discover Weekly is for.