Subject: Developer API Extended Access Request / Shades Media (2M+ Community)

[shadesmedia]

Hi Spotify Developer Team,

My name is Alvaro Mena, founder of Shades (formerly known as Raplume), a music and culture media brand with over 2 million followers across platforms and 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.

I'm currently building a dedicated mobile application for our community, centered around music discovery, listening habits, and social engagement. Our audience is highly engaged and music-first, making Spotify the natural backbone of this project.

To build the experience we have in mind, we need access to endpoints that go beyond the current limitations of the basic developer tier including but not limited to user listening data, recently played tracks, top artists/tracks, and playlist management.

I'd love to discuss an extended API access that would allow us to build responsibly and at scale, in full compliance with Spotify's platform policies.

Given our audience size and the nature of our project, I believe this could be a mutually beneficial collaboration.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards, Alvaro Mena Founder – Shades **bleep**