Spotify takes on Last.fm with revamped music recommendations
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- Feb 04, 2010
Spotify has updated its ‘Related Artisists’ feature, as the music streaming service looks to emulate the music recommendation features of rival Last.fm.
Over the past few months Spotify’s R&D team has been building a new artist recommendation system from scratch that connects Spotify’s entire catalogue of artists.
The company will cross-referencing the data collected over millions of user listening hours to power recommendations.
Spotify users will also see a new ‘Related Artists’ tab added to the artist overview page, letting them seek out similar sounds by clicking on the artist icons.
Up until now a much smaller pool of artists were linked together to provide recommendations, using available editorial tagging data provided by AllMusic, who will continue to provide Spotify with artist biographies.
Erik Bernhardsson, Spotify developer and project leader, said: “Artist recommendations have been fine-tuned meaning music fans can now dig down much deeper into the Spotify catalogue.
“Improving the way in which Spotify users can discover exciting new artists and music in general, such as by sharing playlists, will play a vital part in Spotify’s continuing evolution. This is only the beginning.”
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