{"id":98160,"date":"2024-01-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=98160"},"modified":"2024-01-09T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T10:56:48","slug":"is-ai-killing-spotifys-playlist-tastemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/is-ai-killing-spotifys-playlist-tastemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI killing Spotify’s playlist tastemakers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Curated playlists once dominated, taking radio’s place for music consumption – now it might it’s turn to be replaced.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once upon a time, radio was the place to go to discover new music. The station’s tastemakers – normally the DJ host themselves – found and played new music, making and breaking listeners’ next big thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then music streaming changed everything. Playlists became the new radio with huge, on-demand offerings regularly updated by independent tastemakers and service’s own curators. They also changed the way we listen. Listeners weren’t just discovering their music from playlists, but treating it as their primary method of music consumption – detracting from albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But could AI be threatening the dominance of playlists?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last couple of years, Spotify<\/a> have begun putting an emphasis on artificial intelligence and personalised recommendations. In 2023, Spotify launched its most ambitious tool yet. Their AI-powered DJ tool<\/a> offers listeners their very own, personalised radio station complete with narrator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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