Spotify about to get a little more Last.fm – new recommendation engine
Until now, Spotify has relied on editorially-driven data provided by AllMusic, who will continue to provide artist biographies for the service. In contrast, the new artist recommendations are powered by an algorithm that cross-references data collected over millions of user listening hours, not dissimilar it seems to Last.fm’s ‘scrobbling’ of tracks. The new feature, which connects the entire catalogue of artists, is the product of Spotify’s R&D team who have been working on it over the past few months.
Users will experience the result via a new ‘Related Artists’ tab as part of the artist overview page, “letting them seek out similar sounds much more easily by clicking on the artist icons.”