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How does Spotify recommend songs to you?

Every Monday morning, Spotify sends its listeners a playlist of 30 songs that

are, almost magically, perfectly tuned to their tastes. This playlist, called

Discover Weekly, has been a hit: within six months of launching in June

2015, it was streamed over 1.7 billion times. [145] But how does Spotify get to

know its 75 million users so intimately?

Spotify does employ music experts who hand-curate public playlists, [146] but

there’s no way they could do that for all 75 million Spotify users. Instead,

Spotify has turned to a computer algorithm they run every week. [147]

Spotify’s algorithm for automatically recommending songs for you. Source:

Quartz [148]

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