Spotify Radio is an Echo Chamber!?!?!

[jkteddy772]

Ever since they implemented Daily Mixes, the algorithm has become an echo chamber.

Song radios are a flat 50 songs now, but if I play an even remotely similar artist, it plays ONLY songs and artists I've heard before.

When I pick a song and just want a new radio, I'm legitimately seeing 30/50 songs I've already saved, and maybe 1 song on the entire radio I haven't heard before.

I can no longer tell the difference between any Song/Artist radio, and my On Repeat/Repeat Rewind generated playlists, they're THAT similar.

I follow over 500 artists to see their weekly releases each week, and my account is 7 years old. It feels like the algorithm has boxed me in and I'm stuck, but it's only been this mundane the last year or so.

I'm lucky if a station or radio recommends me a new artist, and if I start their artist radio... it shills me 40/50 songs I ready know again- often not that related to this new artist.

It feels like the algorithm is actively preventing me from finding new music because it just wamts me to stream what I already like.

Do I need a new account, do they just know me too well??? Does anyone else have this problem? How can I force Spotify to diversify now that infinite stations only exist from playlists? Would love to hear your experiences and tricks for fresh stations.

[jkteddy772]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for sharing your feedback, we appreciate it.

Note that the radio gets compiled based on the genre and artist of a track, your personal music library and that of other users with similar tastes. So if you feel that it's not getting switched up as much as you'd like, we recommend that you expand your library by liking new songs/albums and following artists. That way you'll give the algorithm a boost.

Spotify also offers other great ways to stumble on exciting new tunes. Once you click on Search on mobile devices or Browse in the desktop app you're able to pick from a wide variety of genres and moods. That will lead you to a collection of playlists  you can use to expand your music collections.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get on.

[noodlecake]

I'm pretty happy with the changes they made a year or so ago. It's much easier to hear new stuff with the enhanced random thing that adds extra songs you've never heard to whatever playlist you're listening to

[chichajolie]

premium account

Spotify algorithm is not good anymore. In the past when I used to go to radio of a track it would show music under the same genre and most importantly show me tracks i did not have in my playlists. Now i go to a disco house track radio and all i see is random genres of songs I listen to anyway. For example showing lana del rey on a radio of a classic house song. How is that possible