Keep getting recommended the same songs

[Nugget543535]

Why does Spotify keep recommending me the exact same songs in my recommended tab. nearly every single song on the recommended tab has already been suggested to me many times before and i've only had this account for a week. Is there any way I can stop this as I moved to Spotify thinking that it had a good recommended algorithm. Thanks!

[#2]

I moved to spotify thinking it would recommend better and newer songs but all I get are the exactly same songs which I keep listening. It seems like there is no recommendation at all. If I do search for a song, the next song that plays after it is again from the same old ones. The song suggestions were much better when I was a free user. There is no way to dislike a song that plays after the searched song.
Had I known the recommendation is just serving the songs that I have already heard, I wouldn’t have switched to this app.

[Ramzi67]

You didn't answered the problem you offered other ways to listen to new music

[pepernando]

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En fiestas se me suele pedir música, y veo bien que si se escucha banda mexicana recomiende banda mexicana, el problema que yo solo escuchó esa música solo en fiestas afecta mis recomendaciones, me parece mal que me recomiende géneros de canciones que no doy like, las recomendaciones se basan en historial y no en likes, no me gustan nada las recomendaciones incluso siempre le doy en la playlist "No incluir en mi perfil de gustos" ahora Spotify me recomienda mucha música de fiesta que no quiero escuchar en el día a día ... Es solo música que se me pide en eventos, alguna sugerencia?

[GuillermoZ]

Man spotify is so bad, i only keep using spotify because i have like 700 liked songs and a few playlist that i made myself that are around 100 songs long, but the recomendation are so bad, ALWAYS the same... How is possible that you recommend almost all the same songs in a (check this out i cannot believe but you can try for yourself): Madonna radio, the weeknd radio, queen radio, taylor swift radio, billie eilish radio and olivia rodrigo radio. Then i tried change a complete set of gender and are the same thing with: Rammstein radio, elvis presley radio, nirvana radio, metalica radio and the black keys radio.

[GuillermoZ]

Other thing that i just realised, spotify community is not account related with spotify, is so annoying that the made me make a new accont and verify the email, the "I'm not a robot" works so bad that i had to refresh the page 2 time to publish my last reply. Is there any reason to keep using this app?. 
Here is some real feedback: DO NOT ADD A EXPORT SONGS/PLAYLIST TO OTHER APPS because you'll lose like 70% of the users.

[a_kte4-vljs2f]

I am also getting this issue no matter what song i pick. I am using android.

If i search for a song, and play it (not in a playlist) the next song is always Feint by linkin park, followed by chop suey and the kids aren't alright. Evey time, in that order. I like these songs but i don't want to listen to them every. single. Time. Its frustrating 

[suchareq4]

Same here, for me it's always Red Wine Supernova and HOT TO GO! by Chapell Roan. She's nice but I don't want to listen to these 2 same songs every single an album or song I'm listening to is over

[#9]

Even if i haven't listened to the playlist in months, it will only play spotify recommendations and there majority from the same artist. every single time

[SayRamo]

What's going on with algorithm of recommendation?  looks like it broke) I'm deleting tracks every week from ''release radar'' and every week I see that again.

[tommasopeperoni]

The autoplay feature is becoming tiresome as it keeps suggesting the same songs, even ones that have nothing to do with the genre or artist in question. It’s making me hate certain tracks I used to love. I had to block Billie because of this, despite liking her music, and now it’s making me hate other artists or songs I used to enjoy. Please give me the option to dislike songs.

[TheBabyGraz]

Yo, this algorithm is busted. Was also getting Chappell Roan like crazy but didn't notice cause she's dope but now I'm trying to make a bunch of background muzak playlists, and it keeps flooding my reccs with Jim Guthrie. I have literally never heard of this dude and he's now the only recommendation I'm getting for like 6 different playlists. I clicked the do not play this artist option for him and Sea Power (who I did happen to include early on in the playlist and it started reccomending more and more of their songs) because despite being a 16 hour playlist, with less than an hour of their music on it, when using enhanced shuffle, it would literally *only* go back and forth between Sea Power and Jim frinkin Guthrie. Spotify had a straight heart attack after that, it was honestly really funny. How much it lost it's mind shuffling and reshuffling the same greyed out songs from the same greyed out artists, trying desperately to figure out how to solve the problem of "It's like he doesn't want to listen to these same two artists, but that can't be right, lets just try some even more obscure songs from those same two artists.... no, no, maybe he wants the classic hits of these same two artists.... Well, I'm stumped, lets just go back to the tried and true two artists that always work." 
Anyway, it's not as bad as it was after I started getting borderline hostile in my negative feedback on it's reccs of those two, but I'm still getting Jim god dang Guthrie in my daily radar and such, it's wild how much it wants me to be into this guy I've literally never heard of and don't have any feelings about one way or the other.
 

[dankepic]

**bleep** this is already outdated 😂😂 The radios do this too!!!

[rengodel79]

Doy de baja Spotify porque no tiene lógica la lista de reproducción no de recomendación o siempre me tiran los mismos musicos. 

Si invierten en una persona que realmente le ayude con el algoritmo y la logística de los temas sumarian un monton. 

Dezzer tiene mejor lógica que ustedes y sale dos mangos 

[MargotPA]

There has been no addressing of the request to have a DISLIKE option next to a song. Also, hide song does nothing at all because the same songs just reappear. And the option to dislike artists? Useless. I get MORE of the artists I have disliked and asked not to recommend. 

[rain-]

Hi, I made a few playlists on spotify and I used the recommendations at the bottom of the playlist to add songs to it. Everything has worked but after adding a few songs and I think if I go to see the lyrics when I am in that playlist interface, the recommendations break and it shows only a few songs to recommended. Even after pressing refresh for 20 times it still show the same songs. I tried logging out 2 times, deleting cache, reinstalling the app, trying on my iPhone, on spotify web, on microsoft store app, on direct download app, nothing works, the recommendations are still broken.

Please look into this, it is a massive deal breaker.

[CmonSpoifyyy]

Well, this is frustrating. 🙂 But I’ve got to admit, I wrote the rant below and then realized I hadn’t been using the Discover Weekly playlist Spotify was generating for me each week. (It wasn’t on my home screen so I searched for it.) That playlist has a dislike button for each song which satisfyingly skips directly to the next song. Also, 30 of the 40 songs were from artists I’d never heard of. Unfortunately, I only liked two of the forty songs. Hopefully it will learn and be better next week. I think it refreshes on Mondays.

However, I enjoyed ranting so I’ve kept that below. At the bottom, there’s a link to a very detailed post from another user with a strategy that works for him. Hope this can help others.

Here’s the rant!

Regardless of operating system, I think what we all want to know is: what do we need to do to get Spotify to recommend songs we haven’t heard before but are likely to enjoy? If it keeps recommending the same songs, how do we discourage that? How do we help the algorithm to learn what we like and what we don’t? If that’s not possible, what are the plans to make it happen?

Sometimes the world doesn’t make sense. I would think that a quality recommendation algorithm would be the #1 competitive edge these companies would throw resources at. Incomprehensibly, Spotify’s algorithm sucks. Anyone could make a better recommendation algorithm using a freaking Excel spreadsheet. What gives? Maybe they could just hire one record store expert in each genre and team them up with programmers. How hard can it be? “30% of people who like artist X have added this track from Artist Y in the past month. Recommend that to the other 70%. Give them the chance to give that track a positive , negative, or neutral rating. Or if someone likes Jack Johnson but haven’t listened to a lot of Bob Marley, give them Bob Marley recommendations. You don’t like him, how about Xavier Rudd? Paul Simon? People who like Jack Johnson have been listening to this new release from this other artist- check it out.” Anyways, there’s probably some barrier I don’t understand. 🙂

The most helpful thing I’ve found is this post from a few years ago. I’ve contacted the author and he has said this is still the best system he knows about. It’s a long article, but basically:

1) Make a playlist of your favorite tunes and listen to it a lot. (You’re probably already doing this.)

2) Go to your Discover Weekly playlist. Search for it if it’s not on your home screen. (I don’t know what to do if Spotify keeps putting the same songs in here.) Add any songs you like from this to a new playlist. (I just did this and, awesomely, I hadn’t heard most of the songs before. Less awesomely, I only liked two of the forty songs.) Listen to that new playlist A LOT and keep adding your favorite songs to it.

3) That’s about it. 🙂

Hopefully Spotify’s stock will crash and they’ll have to start working for our money.

In the meantime, I recommend trying Xavier Rudd:)

Here’s the detailed post from the guy:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/App-Features/How-I-make-the-Spotify-algorithm-work-for-me/td-p/5318...

[MargotPA]

It used to be an amazing algorithm in my opinion. But they've gotten lazy. Like, come on you people who raised the rate, you can figure out that if I like one song I just might like to be introduced to another album by the same artist...or if I open 2 similar but different playlists with the same category is live to be introduced to some NEW songs. But by all means TPTB just copy and paste. 

[MargotPA]

You are SO on target. Like, do not bother to put up the current music suggestions on the home page. I never open them because the same artists are in them over and over, and Spotify can not figure out that if they gave me new  choices then I might open the lists. I do want to be introduced to new stuff contemporary music! But it would seem that is too much work. 

[MargotPA]

Billie, Kendrick, even Taylor yes. How much have they paid them to try to force me to listen to them? They should pull their money because the effect they are having is the opposite of what they want. 

[MargotPA]

Thank you CmonSpotifyyy. For actually posing something helpful, since clearly Spotify is too lazy to address our issues themselves. They clearly have no interest in the fact that customers are frustrated. And basically about all the same things. And have been for a long time.