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My guess is it's using a pre-built Wordpress template.

It's using a webflow[0] template but with a seemingly customised template that whoever made it called 'plasma'.

Yes, it's a blatant ripoff of Spotify's website design, not some pre-built Wordpress theme.

Source: I work at Spotify.

Agreed. I was one of the lead designers of the Spotify page and I saw it the second the page loaded.

They could have at least changed the colors :)

Huh, even the same green - #2ebd59

With 16.7 million colors for billions of users, and the birthday paradox, there are going to be collisions in the space of web colors.

You're right! Here we see a case of colliding layouts, colliding image primary colours in those layouts, colliding header image orientations and placement, colliding header hero placements and colliding header hero font colours.

The footers and list styles seem to have had a minor fender bender too.

Quite the birthday these two sites have.