Spotify recommendations is bad!

[Jondoe3]

Is there another streaming app ? Because Spotify updated their algorithm and it literally recommends the same 5 songs no matter what genre I listen to. Apple music is really bad , do we know if tidal is good?

[Nilanshubarman]

I think Spotify has no new music recommendation system…Why soptify recommendation can never be like youtube music.. because soptify puts everything puts in album if we listen to music from album, the same music we have been listening to , is going to play again and again..

[ElryMoe]

Absolute garbage results, delte the app its worthless

[Nyxspoke]

To give you a picture of how shitty my song suggestions are here are some songs they've given me:

Dead internet - Whim Therapy
The unknowing - jfarrari
Ask owl - tangerinecat
Singularity - Jnathyn

[Keentse]

Oh no yeah. This year especially I’ve noticed a very steep decline with the album’s recommendations tab. Why am I getting recommended Latin music as someone who has never ONCE listened to Latin music, I’ve been using Spotify for like 8 years now I don’t understand where the algorithm picked that up from. 

[jakuzaki]

ye fr this app is **bleep**ed up lately like how can you make a playlist named 90s and add like 3 odetari songs and even crazier is i dont even listen to that ass odetari. All of my station contain the same tiktok ass songs its named asap rocky and it contains like 2 asap songs and ton **bleep** that is either completely different genre or js trash. Bring back old recommendations. Is soundclound fked up like this too?

[RumAndDiabetes]

I've now had Spotify for 7 hours and I'm ready to go back to the other streaming  service. I have a very specific Playlist with a certain vibe and every other song is a "recommenation" that is NOT on the Playlist. It's impossible  to listen to.

[Nadybl]

Recommendations were never really good for me. One memorable week, all the recommendation were old european polka bands (I don't listen to anything that sounds remotely like polka).  Or if I listened to an artists from a country, It would recommend other artist from that country, even if the genre was completely different. And since I like old jazz classic, the new discovey is just ridiculously old music. Now it's mostly the same song over and over. Even if I like an artist, it will play the same song from that artist. 

[_istired_]

In the playlists made for me on the home page it keeps including Mexican /christian music

[Malik5547]

Spotify recommendations are still bad. They could learn from YouTube's recommendations (which became worse than before, but still are better and more various than Spotify).

[BottledToast]

Apparently it's been a problem for years, found a reddit post from three years ago. I'm also getting the same 10 songs no matter what I add or remove.

[Nihasson]

Totally agree with you! That's exactly why I use this tool – www.wax-riffle.com. It has helped me discover tons of music I would have never found otherwise. The tool is linked to record stores with impressive and diverse selections, and each time, it randomly presents you with one album to explore.

[vaajy]

I would like to add more feedback about the home page or any other recommendations. Often I see suggestions like 'Hot Hits' or something like 'Music for Drinking.' It feels like pushing drinking habits on someone who does not drink, and hasn't for years. 'Hot Hits' is usually full of top hits in which one may be uninterested. I would recommend, at least for paid subscribers, making the home page fully tailored to the taste of the listener. You could still recommend anything related to their taste. For example, if I listen to hard trance, you could recommend vocal trance, but not drinking music with top hits for someone who hasn't drunk for years. Also, I am not interested in checking out any other genres than the hard dance scene, so it's often pointless to showcase anything else, as my eyes will skip them no matter what. My lifelong aim is this: even if there were no hard dance music, I would just listen to silence over anything else. Thanks.

[orkununlu]

I am fed up with the same 10-20 artists the release radar or discover weekly have been suggesting me from long time. These artists are not even in any of my play lists! I try to hide them before i play the list because i think, if i listen them accidentally, AI things i like them and keep suggests me the same artists. i have nearly 1000 different artists in my play lists, but discover weekly keep suggests me the same artists from months! i really fed up with that. I was exciting to listen what release radar plays to me, but now disappointing every time!

[JACOROMA]

Spotify is suddenly recommending and making mixes with music I genuinely hate. It wasn't like this a month ago and even says that these mixes are my most listened mixes that make no senses 

Plan

Premium

Country

Mexico 

Device

Galaxy s20 

Operating System

 Android Oreo

My Question or Issue

[maybesparrow]

Came to the Spotify Community looking to see if there were other subscribers feeling like me as there is no way to send feedback to the company directly. And lo, there are many disheartened! It’s very evident that the algorithm almost exclusively pushes the music of new artists whose representation can afford to pay for exposure. I wish there was an option to turn off suggestions because it’s clear the algorithm isn’t influenced by the genres or eras of your listening history. Spotify in fact completely disregards musical history in its algorithm. It feels tawdry and tacky knowing that what’s suggested is paid for by some executive to appear as a specially tailored suggestion “just for me.” I know everything we pay for is a commodity but Spotify’s algorithm itself has been commodified and it feels dirty. Because of this the podcast suggestions I’m receiving actually make me feel offended, they’re so sloppy and trashy. Recently when I open the app to LISTEN to music via a speaker my brain is hijacked by the MOVING IMAGERY of a click-bait podcast suggestion until I realise the content has nothing to do with my intended interaction with the app. It’s essentially a paid-for auto-generated suggestion planted there like the U2 album on iTunes which was then viewed as a giant violation! There’s so much slop generated content all over the internet as of late but that’s something I’ve come to expect with the “free” unregulated environment of the internet. But Spotify is subscription based. I have always used the app to intentionally seek out music on my own. Now it feels almost impossible to get through the app to get to an older back catalogue. It’s like there’s this new, front catalogue literally, physically stacked in front of discovering older or less resourced artists aka less lucrative “content.”

I’m sharing my thoughts knowing it’s futile but also to acknowledge that the app is going to**bleep** and it’s obvious. I’d rather spend more to be advertised to less. If Spotify can’t afford to pay artists fairly for their genuine listens, they’re either undercharging subscribers or over-bonusing their execs. 

[janedoe655]

Plan

Premium

Country

United States

Device

Any

Operating System

Any

My Question or Issue

So I've never listened to anime music on Spotify, yet for some reason, it keeps suggesting me anime soundtracks. This started happening around the time I started to listen to a lot of video game music, and now Spotify has decided I'm some huge anime megafan because of it, ignoring the fact that I've never listened to anime music on there. 

I haven't even listened to any video game music in weeks to try and make the sections go away but they still show up!

At first it was funny, like oh how cute, they think I like anime. But now it's annoying when nearly half of my sections on the homepage are dedicated to anime soundtracks.

Is there a way to fix this? It's very annoying! Like I said, I haven't even listened to any video game music lately but these sections stick around.