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I actually just wish Spotify stop spamming me the very same songs and artists over and over in virtually any "made for airstrike" radio / playlist.

Give me "NOT made for airstrike", please. I often want to start a radio off a song precisely because I'm trying to find new songs that go with that one, not so I can have an excuse to unironically listen to "More Than This" for the 20th time this week...

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Yes, Spotify seems to want to force you to listen to the same things over and over, almost as if someone wants to boast about how many millions of seconds of loading time is saved by their clever caching.

It's known that record labels pay Spotify to promote certain artists more (known as industry plants if they are not already established). They found a loophole so that it's not considered payola (which is illegal) https://twitter.com/AbelowRob/status/1641455112345493506

Around a decade ago, the 'radio based on' RATM's Killing In The Name was a good mix of everything, because of the push for that as Christmas no. 1, it suddenly had a lot of people listening to it who regularly had their tastes in all sorts of other genres. It was quite a fun bit of whiplash to go RATM > SOAD > Dolly Parton > Radiohead > The Kinks and so on

Almost felt like a little 'hack' to get a broader selection of suggestions for a few years (though still largely mainstream stuff)

It seems like the discover weekly playlist does a better job at showing new songs, but you only get that once a week of course, and without any genre control.

There are also genre-based playlists and a release radar.

You can use "song radio" to get a mix of new material and favourited songs that relate to a song, album or artist. It's even been given a prominent icon if you're using Spotify via Car Play or similar.

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