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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Fun idea. Not sure how they determine "pre vs. post-breakout" artists though. I signed in and apparently I found ODESZA, Cashmere Cat, LOGIC, Glass Animals, Made in Heights, and Capital Cities. Bug report: When I click the playlist they generate at the end, it doesn't seem to do anything.
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Derek Shanahan@dshan · GM @ SuperRewards
Spotify is generally post-breakout in my experience. All the songs on the playlist they generated for me are more than six months old. I do love how they build these mini-sites to help people get deeper into the Spotify catalogue. I just hunted The Sorting Hat (http://www.producthunt.com/tech/...), which (IMO) is one of the better ways to explore Spotify's… See more
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Shannon Byrne@shannnonb · Created asongaday.co. Content Strategist
@dshan What Derek said. But I am really glad to see Spotify at least recognizing that they don't often feature break out artists. It's pretty much my whole premise behind A Song A Day (same for Music Geeks, of course), but I would love to see Spotify do a better job introducing emerging artist. Glad to see they're kinda / sorta trying. :)
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Derek Shanahan@dshan · GM @ SuperRewards
@shannnonb @rrhoover Alongside Sorting Hat, McDonald powers 3 emerging playlists that can be interesting every once in a while, called The Needle. Explanation here: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?ty... The 'Underground" Needle: https://open.spotify.com/user/th... Spotify's acquisition of Echo Nest, to me, brought in some great geeky music minds, and we're g… See more
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christopher lake@chhhris · paterfamilias
@rrhoover generating the playlist worked for me but Chrome did block the popup initially.
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Ivo Dimchev@himynameisivo · Founder @Stereofox / Digital @blacklane
@dshan I second that. Many of the artists which are currently topping Soundcloud charts (for example) .. or take hypem don't have their stuff released via Spotify. In that line of thought it might be determine who found them first. That being said - kudos for the little additions coming out for Spotify. Few months after the release of Tidal and Beats music… See more
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