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How to customize your Spotify profile

14/03/2020

Spotify has published updated details on how to customize your Spotify profile with guides for both mobile and desktops which allow you to update everything from your photo to your username and create a personalized music page unique to you. How to change your Spotify profile picture (Note: you can’t upload any images that violate any copyright, trademark, or personal image rights. Further information can be found here.) On Android and iOS smartphones and tablets […]

Spotify updates Home screen

10/03/2020

Spotify updates Home screen on its mobile and tablet apps to give faster access to your favourites according to a recent blog post from the streamer. Available now, when you open your Spotify mobile or tablet app, you will be greeted with a refreshed user interface that allows you to quickly jump back into familiar content. Simply tap to access the podcast you stream each morning, the playlist you always tune into during your workout, […]

Spotify Premium Duo comes to Canada, France and Japan

04/03/2020

Spotify Premium Duo comes to Canada, France and Japan following on from its initial pilot rollout in 2019 in Denmark, Ireland, Poland and Latin America. Spotify’s Premium Duo subscription plan is two Premium accounts for couples under one roof which offers the functionality to either listen together or separately. The plan in Canada costs CAD $12.99/month with a 1 month free trial and the plan can be cancelled anytime. The only restriction is that a couple must […]

Local music and Bollywood are Spotify favourites in India

02/03/2020

Local music and Bollywood are Spotify favourites in India according to a recent blog posting celebrating the first 12 months since their launch. There are now more than 6,400 Indian creators using Spotify for Artists and there are listeners from over 2,300 cities tuning into more than 350 curated Indian playlists like New Music Hindi and Punjabi 101. The top three music genres streamed across India are pop, filmi (music from popular Indian movies) and […]

Spotify refreshes its mobile app

28/02/2020

Spotify refreshes its mobile app with 3 new icons to aid usability according to a new blog posting from the streamer. Available initially to iOS users with the Android version ‘promised soon’ both Free and Premium subscribers will benefit from a more streamlined, easy-to-use interface with fresh designs to actionable icons that will make playing your favourite song or playlist as simple as the tap of a button. Simpler and more universal Shuffle Play button […]

Spotify delivers 41 Bn K-Pop streams

26/02/2020

Spotify delivers 41 Bn K-Pop streams since January 2014 increasing the genre’s share of listening by more than 1800% according to a recent blog post by the streamer. K-Pop, which originated in South Korea, has taken on a life of its own thanks to East-meets-West collaborations from BTS and US singer-songwriter Halsey, whose ‘Boy With Luv’ track has over 380 million streams. The popularity of the genre continues to grow as more and more fans […]

Spotify syncs lyrics to the music

24/02/2020

Spotify syncs lyrics to the music using the Musixmatch lyrics platform so you can read or sing along as the track plays. This feature is being gradually rolled out on the platform and the feature won’t work for all tracks on Spotify, but supported songs will be indexed with a LYRICS tag much like the EXPLICIT tag in playlists. You can read the lyrics from the Now Playing section, just below the cover art and […]