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US Spotify users can play podcasts through Alexa

15/12/2019

US Spotify users can now play podcasts through Amazon Alexa and is available on both Spotify Free and Spotify Premium according to a recent blog posting. Until recently Spotify users have been able to ask Amazon Alexa to play music, like their Discover Weekly or Today’s Top Hits playlists, but not podcasts. But for US Amazon Alexa customers Spotify Free and Premium users can now ask Alexa to play their favourite podcasts as well. First […]

Your year and decade in music with Spotify Wrapped 2019

08/12/2019

Relive your year and decade in music with Spotify Wrapped 2019 which now includes the podcasts you listened to and even more artist information according to a recent blog posting. This year your ‘Wrapped’ will include the songs, albums, artists, and podcasts you discovered throughout 2019, plus the artists you streamed the most throughout the decade on Spotify. Once logged in you can discover your top artist, top song through each season, top podcasts, genres […]

Spotify reveals its top tracks of 2019

04/12/2019

Spotify reveals its top tracks of 2019 and charts the Top Songs, Artists, Playlists and Podcasts of this year and the last decade in a recent blog posting. This year, Post Malone was the most-streamed artist with over 6.5 Bn streams worldwide. It’s the rapper-singer-songwriter’s first time topping Spotify’s Wrapped list, and he did it just 12 weeks after dropping his album Hollywood’s Bleeding (which also happens to be the second most-streamed album globally this […]

Spotify launches Anime Hub

29/11/2019

Spotify launches Anime Hub allowing fans to stream TV and Movie Anime songs in the new Japanese Anime hub according to a recent blog posting. Anime fans in Japan, the US, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, India, South Africa, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the 13 regions in MENA can find and stream anime music by going here. Since the hub launched in October, fans in the US, […]

Spotify creates Your Daily Podcasts playlist

28/11/2019

Spotify creates Your Daily Podcasts playlist which includes favourite shows and new recommendations according to a recent blog post. The streamer has done for podcasts what it did for music discovery where it has playlists like Discover Weekly and Daily Mix. The streamer has created Your Daily Podcasts its first daily personalized podcast playlist that gives users an easy way to discover new shows while also keeping up with old favourites. If you’ve listened to […]

Spotify creates personalised road trip playlist

23/11/2019

Spotify creates personalised road trip playlist which launches in the US on a separate website, here, rather than as part of the streamer’s app. The Soundtrack Your Ride lets you personalise your playlist for your journey in three easy steps. Once you have logged into your Spotify account: Select the length Use the Google Maps tool or time selector to set the length of your trip Customize Take a quick quiz to personalise your playlist. […]

Spotify users grow by 30% to 248 million

16/11/2019

Spotify users grow by 30% to 248 million year on year with subscribers up 31% to 113 million according to the streamer’s recently published Q3 2019 financial results. Total Monthly Active Users (MAU) grew 30% year on year to 248 million well ahead of expectations with South East Asia and India leading the charge. The streamer also noted that long term retention of users driven by innovation in its product has contributed to the strong […]