Discover weekly playlist is getting worse month by month

[Tom7777777]

So I use Spotify for many, many years. And what I see the past months is that the discover weekly playlist ("Mix der Woche" in German) is getting worse and worse step by step. While other companies improve with similar offers thanks to AI, Spotify doesn't hit the mark anymore.

This playlist should introduce you to new music based on your listening habits. Nothing could be wrong with that statement nowadays. I almost exclusively listen to a genre called "Epic Music" - which is similar to movie soundtrack music without vocals. I listen to it when I work or play video games. Hours each day. I do not listen to electronic music, R&B, hip or hop or the typical chart music.

In the past years Spotify showed me matched music in this playlist. I always discovered 1-2 new artists or songs there. The rest of the music was at least somehow fitting to this epic soundtrack like music, more orchestral music, no vocals.

But nowadays Spotify suggest just garbage. Some electronic music that does not even fit at all to my genre. Music with vocals. Guitar music, dance music. It is as someone would just randomly pick music. So bad. It has 0 value for me anymore. On contrary - it is a waste of time to even listen to any of the songs now.

How can this so bad? I mean, Spotify has all the data. Every company would be happy to know exactly what people like. I am already used to the fact, that the advertising on Spotify regarding music completely and always ignores my music taste and wants to introduce me to German hip hop playlists, charts, so called "Ballermann" and "Karneval" playlists (the worst garbage ever), or to bands that I never ever listend to and where you will not find a single played song during the past years. Total fail. But now also the discover playlists are a total fail, too. I am amazed and shocked at the same time that a company like Spotify is so bad in using the information it has from its users to target suggestions and advertising to the point!

[santa-2512]

Totally agree, 

my music week starts on Monday morning with discover weekly, and ends on Friday morning with release radar, 

Five days to  discover new artists, back catalogues, new tracks , and build ever growing playlists 

Then we got ""New"" Discover weekly and now i have to endure 2 hrs of AI generated instrumental 80's synth pop

Today out of 30 ""NEW"" music tracks  26 were blocked, Utter tosh, you can only reuse the same synth riffs , and glides before it becomes apparant its AI,  The lack of lyrics = AI 

Absoloute garbage would be the best way to describe discover weekly now,   

The only question is WHY?    

[ecoloco]

This week's Discover Weekly selection was mostly AI-generated LoFi, but the last song is already raising questions, how is this **bleep** being allowed to pass, the artist name is correct and the picture is taken from the web but the songs are wrong. Does anyone also check the artist additions or is everything fully automated?

Sample: https://open.spotify.com/track/5yJD4kTJry2qYkuCnpPN3e?si=ca3d27f228664912

Now I have to listen to metal for a week?

[ArtystaGary]

Im getting ai generated songs an it’s very disappointing.  

[andrewreedy]

Yes it’s all instrumental junk now