[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":319},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post:\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-find-new-music-on-spotify":3,"related-blog-posts:\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-find-new-music-on-spotify":311},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":282,"dateModified":283,"description":284,"draft":285,"extension":286,"heroImage":287,"meta":288,"navigation":289,"ogImage":287,"path":290,"relatedSlugs":291,"seo":303,"stem":304,"tags":305,"__hash__":310},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-find-new-music-on-spotify.md","How to find new music on Spotify \u002F\u002F and what's missing",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":272},"minimark",[9,17,20,23,26,29,34,43,46,54,57,61,64,67,70,73,81,85,93,114,117,124,128,145,149,152,155,158,161,165,169,172],[10,11,12,16],"p",{},[13,14,15],"strong",{},"The short version:"," to find new music on Spotify, start from radio and from playlists that artists and labels put together, then let Discover Weekly and Release Radar's new \"Discover new artists\" pill fill in around them. The controls Spotify added in 2026 steer what the algorithm guesses about you, but none of them follow anything. You still can't follow a label or a producer's credits, so that part of digging stays manual.",[10,18,19],{},"Most of Spotify's discovery runs through personalised playlists, radio and artist pages, and the flagship is still Discover Weekly: 30 tracks every Monday.",[10,21,22],{},"Open Release Radar and there's a row of pills across the top. Mine reads Discover new artists, Editors' picks, Video, Electronic, Hyperpop, Finnish Pop. Spotify calls these session controls. To me they're pills.",[10,24,25],{},"They're also the most visible sign of what changed this year: you can steer Spotify's recommendations now. What you still can't do is point it at a source and say: everything from here.",[10,27,28],{},"My own digging is less clever than any of that. On Spotify it's radio and artist playlists, plus the monthly playlists some labels put together. When I'm looking for tracks for a DJ set I'm mostly not on Spotify at all. That happens on SoundCloud.",[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"where-do-new-artists-actually-come-from-on-spotify","Where do new artists actually come from on Spotify?",[10,35,36,37,42],{},"Radio does a lot of the work. Pick an artist, album or song, hit the three dots, then Go to Radio, and you get a station seeded by that one thing. You pick the starting point, but your own taste steers the rest, which is ",[38,39,41],"a",{"href":40},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-spotify-radio-works","why stations drift back to the familiar",". Artist playlists are another: start from one name and let it lead somewhere.",[10,44,45],{},"The Fans Also Like row at the bottom of an artist page is the crowd's version. It's built from what that artist's listeners also play, and artists can't edit it, so it's listening behaviour rather than marketing.",[10,47,48,49,53],{},"If you'd rather the new names came to you, there's ",[38,50,52],{"href":51},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-spotify-discover-weekly-works","Discover Weekly",", which works best as a lucky dip rather than a plan, and now Release Radar's \"Discover new artists\" pill. Release Radar already slips in artists you don't follow alongside the ones you do, and the pill narrows the whole playlist to artists who are new to you.",[10,55,56],{},"Then there's the comfort food. Daylist, the Daily Mixes and Smart Shuffle are good at re-serving what you already play, with a few neighbours mixed in. Fine for background, rarely where new names come from.",[30,58,60],{"id":59},"the-new-controls-steer-the-algorithm-they-dont-follow-anything","The new controls steer the algorithm. They don't follow anything",[10,62,63],{},"The pills showed up in July. Each one narrows the playlist: to a genre, to artists who are new to you, or to some other option Spotify picks for your taste. Two other controls haven't reached Latvia, so I only know them from Spotify's own pages. Taste Profile, a Premium beta in the US and New Zealand, lets you describe your taste in your own words and reshapes Home around it. Prompted Playlist builds a playlist from whatever you type, in a handful of English-speaking markets plus Sweden.",[10,65,66],{},"Underneath, they all take Spotify's guess about you and let you nudge it. A pill narrows what Release Radar already picked. Taste Profile edits the picture Spotify has of you.",[10,68,69],{},"A prompt is a guess with more words attached.",[10,71,72],{},"Taste Profile can't follow anything for you, and it won't take rules like \"always show\" or \"never show\". You can tell Spotify you're into a label's sound. You can't tell it to play everything the label puts out.",[10,74,75,76,80],{},"Spotify has written a never-show rule of its own: profiles badged as AI personas are kept out of its recommendations by default, though their followers still get them. More on that in ",[38,77,79],{"href":78},"\u002Fblog\u002Favoid-ai-music-spotify","how to avoid AI music on Spotify",".",[30,82,84],{"id":83},"digging-sideways-from-a-label-or-a-credit","Digging sideways from a label or a credit",[10,86,87,88,92],{},"A lot of my favourite music of the last decade reached me through labels, and on Spotify a label is ",[38,89,91],{"href":90},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffind-record-label-of-a-song","a line of small print under the tracklist",". Some labels hand you a workaround themselves: a playlist. Below0, the Helsinki label, runs monthly ones, and they're one of the places I find new music on Spotify.",[10,94,95,96,105,106,109,110,113],{},"For a label's back catalogue there's ",[38,97,99,100,104],{"href":98},"\u002Fblog\u002Fspotify-label-search","Spotify's ",[101,102,103],"code",{},"label:"," search",". Type ",[101,107,108],{},"label:\"ninja tune\"",", open the Albums tab, and you've got the nearest thing Spotify has to a label page. Add ",[101,111,112],{},"tag:new"," and it narrows to recent releases. It's a decent Friday snapshot and useless as a system, because nothing tells you when there's something new to search for.",[10,115,116],{},"Credits are the other way sideways, when the label or distributor sent them. For a long time most of them dead-ended at the name, apart from songwriters with a Songwriter Page. SongDNA changes that on the tracks it covers: tap a producer or writer in Now Playing and you get the other artists they've worked with. It launched as a beta for Premium on iOS and Android.",[10,118,119,120,80],{},"Spot a producer on one record, though, and there's still no button that tells you when their name turns up on the next one. More on ",[38,121,123],{"href":122},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-spotify-song-credits-tell-you","what Spotify's credits show and where they stop",[30,125,127],{"id":126},"keeping-up-with-artists-you-already-follow","Keeping up with artists you already follow",[10,129,130,131,135,136,140,141,80],{},"That's a different job, and Spotify's better at it. Since July 2025 there's been a Following feed for exactly this (on mobile: Home, then Music, then Following), and it's the main thing ",[38,132,134],{"href":133},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-following-an-artist-on-spotify-does","a follow actually gets you",". Release Radar still drops every Friday, but it's a selection, not a log: one song per artist per week, and a remix doesn't count for the remixer. The ",[38,137,139],{"href":138},"\u002Fblog\u002Fspotify-release-radar-how-it-works","Release Radar rules"," are their own rabbit hole, and if you want the lot rather than a sample, ",[38,142,144],{"href":143},"\u002Fspotify-new-releases","here's how to catch every Spotify new release",[30,146,148],{"id":147},"what-spotify-still-wont-follow","What Spotify still won't follow",[10,150,151],{},"Spotify lets you follow artists, podcasts, shows and other people's profiles. A label can run a profile you follow for its playlists, but nothing follows a label's releases, and there's no follow for a producer, songwriter or engineer either, SongDNA or not.",[10,153,154],{},"In the 30 days to October 8, 2026, 67.3% of the tracks Tracknack added to its users' playlists got there only because the playlist follows the track's label, with no followed artist on the track. Following a label is mostly a way of meeting artists you don't follow yet.",[10,156,157],{},"Spotify has no way to do that, which is why I built Tracknack. You follow artists, labels and the people in the credits. Their new releases land in a Spotify or Apple Music playlist that updates itself, with email alerts if you want them. It's free for up to 30 follows. It does suggest artists to follow, but nothing lands in the playlist unless an artist, label or credit you picked is on it.",[10,159,160],{},"It has limits of its own. Credit follows only work when the credits exist, and plenty of tracks arrive without a producer or writer listed. It can only add what's actually on Spotify or Apple Music. And it doesn't detect AI: if a label you follow puts out an AI-generated release, that comes through too.",[162,163],"blog-faq",{":items":164},"[{\"question\":\"How to find new music on Spotify?\",\"answer\":\"Start from radio: open any artist, album or song, tap the three dots and choose Go to Radio. The Fans Also Like row on artist pages and playlists made by artists and labels also work outward from music you already know. Discover Weekly adds 30 recommendations every Monday. You can't follow a record label or a producer on Spotify, so label digging means label: search or a separate tracker.\"},{\"question\":\"What features does Spotify have for discovering new artists?\",\"answer\":\"Discover Weekly, Release Radar, radio, Fans Also Like and the playlists artists post on their profiles. Since July 2026, Release Radar can be narrowed from a row of options at the top of the playlist, to a genre, to new-to-you artists or to other personalised picks. SongDNA, which launched in beta for Premium on iOS and Android in March 2026, lets you tap a track's producers and writers to see who else they've worked with.\"},{\"question\":\"Best way to find new songs on Spotify?\",\"answer\":\"Work outward from something you already trust. Song or artist radio begins from a specific record, though Spotify shapes the station with your own taste too. Playlists posted by artists and labels begin from a person's taste rather than Spotify's model of yours. Some labels run monthly playlists, which are an easy way to hear artists on their roster you haven't come across yet.\"},{\"question\":\"Which is best for finding music you've never heard: Discover Weekly, Daily Mixes or Release Radar?\",\"answer\":\"Discover Weekly. It's built to recommend tracks you probably haven't heard and refreshes with 30 of them every Monday. Release Radar is mostly new releases from artists you follow or listen to, with some recommended artists mixed in, though its Discover new artists option, where it appears, narrows it to artists new to you. Daily Mixes are built around what you already play, so they're the weakest of the three for new names.\"},{\"question\":\"Can you follow a record label on Spotify?\",\"answer\":\"No. Spotify lets you follow artists, podcasts, shows and user profiles, but nothing follows a record label's releases, and there's no follow for producers or songwriters. The nearest workaround is searching label: plus the label name, for example label:hyperdub, and opening the Albums tab, but you have to rerun it by hand and Spotify won't notify you about new releases. Tracknack can follow a label and add its new releases to a Spotify or Apple Music playlist automatically.\"}]",[30,166,168],{"id":167},"sources-and-notes","Sources and notes",[10,170,171],{},"Checked in October 2026, on my account in Latvia. 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