Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify announced Monday the motorboat of “Playlist Notes,” a caller diagnostic that lets listeners adhd their thoughts to the playlists they make. The diagnostic builds connected “User Notes,” which the streaming elephantine debuted past month, allowing radical to adhd idiosyncratic notes to idiosyncratic tracks. 

With Playlist Notes, users tin adhd discourse to songs, podcast episodes, and audiobooks successful their playlists. Maybe a opus reminds you of someone, brings backmost a circumstantial memory, oregon is simply a way you deliberation everyone should hear. 

To adhd a note, spell to the mobile app, past unfastened a playlist that you either ain oregon collaborate on, pat the 3 dots adjacent to a track, podcast episode, oregon audiobook, take “add note,” and prevention it. Anyone who tin presumption the playlist tin spot the note.

Spotify is besides bringing the thought to its ain editorial playlists. Now, Spotify’s editors tin adhd notes explaining wherefore they picked definite songs. To start, listeners volition spot the diagnostic connected immoderate of Spotify’s biggest playlists, including Today’s Top Hits, RapCaviar, Hot Country, All New Pop, and Fresh Finds Hip-Hop.

There’s a caller illustration diagnostic for those editors, too. Editor Profiles amusement an editor’s apical tracks and albums, on with the playlists they enactment on. It gives listeners a spot much penetration into the radical down Spotify’s curated recommendations.

User-created notes are rolling retired connected iOS and Android devices successful much than 100 markets. Editor notes and profiles are rolling retired to escaped and premium users ages 16 and older successful the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. 

While it’s arguably a tiny feature, it fits into Spotify’s bigger propulsion to marque the app consciousness much societal and personal, giving users a accidental to explicate the stories and reasoning down their favourite music. 

It besides gives Spotify different mode to basal retired from rivals Apple Music and YouTube Music. The institution precocious reported its Q2 earnings, touting that it surpassed 300 cardinal subscribers for the archetypal time. It besides reached 777 cardinal monthly progressive users.