When artists influence the Spotify interface
Greg Taieb · · 2 min read
Little riddle: How do we recognize an artist who is influential in the music industry?
She is an artist who, with a simple request, can change the user interface of the largest audio streaming service in the world.
In any case, this is what Adele's recent request to Spotify tells us.
In fact with the release of her latest opus, the British singer made a small request to the streaming service: delete the button allowing you to randomly play the titles of an album.
This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening 🍷♥️ https://t.co/XWlykhqxAy
— Adele (@Adele) November 21, 2021
Wish granted since Spotify has hidden the function which is now much less easy to find in the application.
The reason?
According to Adèle, proposing an order of listening to the titles different from that decided by the author is a little distorting the album. It’s like seeing different scenes in a movie in reverse. According to Spotify, this is a request made by users for a long time.
Personally I must admit that the presence of this option has never pushed me to use it. A question of usage, I imagine.
The fact that they decided to implement it exactly when Adèle requested it was certainly not a coincidence. Indeed the artist is making his comeback with the album 30 which is his first opus to be released directly in streaming.
And it was quite successful for him since in a few days the title “Easy on me” became the most played song in 24 hours in the history of the service.
I would like to point out that as I write these lines, it still seems to be present on the French version of the service.
And you, you are rather shuffle or do you follow the order of the album?