Music Recommendations - Topics

Best breakup albums that don't just wallow for an hour Songs that feel like the opening scene of a movie How do I find new music when every app recommends the same mainstream acts? I want a music app that does not shove a curated playlist in my face on launch Recommendation engines make popular genres more popular and niche ones invisible The chart-topping single is so often the worst song on the album How do you discover local bands before they blow up Albums you have to hear front to back in order Streaming weighting rules quietly decide which songs reach number one Why do the UK and US charts disagree so much about the same artist? The record store clerk was the original recommendation algorithm Streaming quietly killed the album as a format people sit through Music algorithms keep me trapped in a loop of the same twenty artists Spotify's Discover Weekly nailed my taste for a month then went completely stale Spotify vs Apple Music payout models: which one treats smaller artists better? YouTube Music has the live version but not the studio track of my favorite song Hand-curated human playlists beat algorithmic ones for finding new genres Why does every recommendation feel like a slightly different version of my last song? Why does YouTube Music keep pushing covers and fan uploads over the original recording? Does listening to sad music actually help or just make you wallow? Why do so many great songs hide as B-sides nobody ever plays Moving my playlists from Spotify over to YouTube Music is a real pain Debut albums that came out of nowhere and defined a whole year Songs that hit different on a late night drive Creative Commons music is great for videos but the good tracks are buried Listening to music while working wrecks my focus but total silence is worse Discovering new music through friends still beats any algorithm hands down White noise vs actual music for drowning out an open-plan office My commute playlist and my workout playlist share almost no songs Royalty-free music libraries all start to sound the same after a while Music that makes a rainy Sunday morning feel right A genre-only playlist flattens an artist's range since you only ever hear their one mood