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What feature of Spotify was "not very good" for finding new artists?

edit: possible answers might be "Artist Radio", "my Discover Weekly playlist", "Related Artists page", "my Daily Mix playlists"

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I don't think Spotify has any good features for finding new artists. I've used all of the ones you mentioned and generally don't like the playlists. Usually they play songs I already know, and the new ones they introduce I just skip. I get a very small hit rate of new music to listen to from Spotify versus other channels.

`and the new ones they introduce I just skip`

I think I found your problem. My Discover Weekly is always filled with great new artists I've never heard of, and there's generally at least 3-6 songs that I think are great (and want to explore the artist further). Note that I listened to roughly ~80,000 minutes of music last year (according to Spotify wrapped) with 7,600 songs played, so it wasn't a small amount.

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