On Wednesday, Spotify launched a brand new personalised playlist designed to assist listeners uncover upcoming live shows of their space.
The playlist, titled “Concert events Close to You,” is up to date each Wednesday with 30 songs from artists performing close by, together with full occasion particulars and ticket hyperlinks. Spotify companions with ticketing platforms like AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, and Ticketmaster.
Like different personalised playlists on Spotify, resembling “Daylist” and varied “Mixes,” “Concert events Close to You” is tailor-made to customers’ listening habits, permitting them to find artists they love.
To obtain the most recent present updates, listeners ought to guarantee they’re sharing their location by the “Dwell Occasions” part, discovered beneath the Search tab within the Spotify app. Spotify additionally recommends enabling push notifications and following favourite artists to obtain personalised reminders.
The launch of the brand new playlist alerts the corporate’s ambition to make occasion discovery a extra vital facet of the general Spotify listening expertise whereas additionally offering artists extra visibility.
The announcement follows Spotify’s publication of its yearly Loud & Clear report, which gives detailed figures relating to its funds to counter claims that the platform doesn’t adequately compensate artists. For the primary time, an artist who acquired one in each million streams on the platform earned a mean of over $10,000 in 2024.