Since December 2015 I have been a member on the infamous music streaming app Spotify. I joined as my ambition for a career in the music industry was heightening rapidly, I was happy to start paying/signing up to subscriptions that were necessary for an aspiring music industry worker.
For the first half a year that I was paying for Spotify, I was always unsure about keeping my subscription. This is because although I very much enjoyed the experience of listening to new and old music offline for the first time, that was the only thing I would gain for £10.00 pm whilst all my other friends were getting the same thing illegally downloaded for free.
Of course it was brilliant to have so many albums available to me without the adds, but I felt as such a famous music app, Spotify could of given a bit more features-wise.
As another year went by and it was now the end of 2016, I noticed that a lot of my friends were now subscribed to Spotify or Apple music, no one was illegally downloading anymore and I still don't hear much of it today. Anyway, coincidentally to the rise in people around me using the app, the features got better. At the very end of 2016 Spotify made everyone a "your top 100 songs this year" playlist for all of it users. This consisted of the most streamed songs on your personal account that year in order of ranking. I downloaded my entire playlist offline and it was such a good playlist as it revealed to my all of my favourite songs which is not only interesting, but it saves me trying to find specific songs. I can just shuffle that playlist when listening to music. Another great thing about these playlists was that they could be made public so you can see all of your friends' most streamed songs as well. I thought this was such a good idea that worked really well with users and I hope they do it again this year. It is almost like Spotify is on it's way to becoming a music orientated social media platform. Sometimes it is hard to know what your favourite music is when you are listening to hundreds of tracks per day so this really helps break it down for everyone.
For the first half a year that I was paying for Spotify, I was always unsure about keeping my subscription. This is because although I very much enjoyed the experience of listening to new and old music offline for the first time, that was the only thing I would gain for £10.00 pm whilst all my other friends were getting the same thing illegally downloaded for free.
Of course it was brilliant to have so many albums available to me without the adds, but I felt as such a famous music app, Spotify could of given a bit more features-wise.
As another year went by and it was now the end of 2016, I noticed that a lot of my friends were now subscribed to Spotify or Apple music, no one was illegally downloading anymore and I still don't hear much of it today. Anyway, coincidentally to the rise in people around me using the app, the features got better. At the very end of 2016 Spotify made everyone a "your top 100 songs this year" playlist for all of it users. This consisted of the most streamed songs on your personal account that year in order of ranking. I downloaded my entire playlist offline and it was such a good playlist as it revealed to my all of my favourite songs which is not only interesting, but it saves me trying to find specific songs. I can just shuffle that playlist when listening to music. Another great thing about these playlists was that they could be made public so you can see all of your friends' most streamed songs as well. I thought this was such a good idea that worked really well with users and I hope they do it again this year. It is almost like Spotify is on it's way to becoming a music orientated social media platform. Sometimes it is hard to know what your favourite music is when you are listening to hundreds of tracks per day so this really helps break it down for everyone.
Just in case you were interested, this is a summary of my Spotify listening this year- my top 100 songs this year; https://open.spotify.com/user/
To the right you can also see my main (newer playlists) that are working progresses. If you scroll down further through my Spotify playlists there are more complete ones such as 'Summer 2017' which is over 300 songs. This playlist is probably my biggest on Spotify so far and it really is nostalgic when I listen to any of it at this time of year.
I make seasonal playlists in order to achieve nostalgia when listening back in the future months and my summer playlist gave me real success at this idea. There is a mix of genres on my summer playlist including grime, rock, pop, tropical house, dance, electronic, punk, indie, Jungle and alternative.
To the right you can also see my main (newer playlists) that are working progresses. If you scroll down further through my Spotify playlists there are more complete ones such as 'Summer 2017' which is over 300 songs. This playlist is probably my biggest on Spotify so far and it really is nostalgic when I listen to any of it at this time of year.
I make seasonal playlists in order to achieve nostalgia when listening back in the future months and my summer playlist gave me real success at this idea. There is a mix of genres on my summer playlist including grime, rock, pop, tropical house, dance, electronic, punk, indie, Jungle and alternative.
As you can see I have also made an autumn playlist this year and a start at a winter one. My autumn playlist consists of lots of eerie tunes that fit an autumnal theme, some are darker than others but they can all be perfect for walks in the woods through fallen leaves, Halloween or chilling with a pumpkin spice latte. The main genre that occurs in the autumn playlist is indie (artists such as Zella Day, Johnny Cash, Florence and The Machine, Banks) and I might need to add 4 just to make it 100! I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about the opening song for my autumn playlist also 'Stayin' Alive
My winter playlist is a working progress, I haven't had much time to be adding to it over the busy Christmas month, however my autumn playlist covers my November listening also.
'Humble' is the name of my newest gym playlist for the end of this year/going into next year and this is of course filled with empowering tunes, pop, rock and dance to stay motivated when exercising. There are also some more chilled out songs in 'humble' from artists like the Japanese house for doing yoga with in the gym or at home. My 'Dark' playlist is pretty self-explanatory, it's all of my favourite darker or sadder songs, mainly consisting of a post rock/alternative rock genre featuring bands such as Brand New, La dispute and The Spill Canvas.
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