Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music

Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by steve-benjamins on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:14AM (#15448804)

As an artist, Discover Weekly has been the best thing to ever happen to me. Every Monday I get a big infusion of listeners (around 5,000)— many of who stick around and check out my other music :)

Prior to that, the best press I could get was the tedious process of cold-emailing bloggers (a practice which is now dying off).

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by landtuna on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:33AM (#15449566)

Haha - read your comment, looked at your username, opened Spotify, and "Purification Ritual" is the first song in my Discover Weekly.

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by steve-benjamins on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:14PM (#15450860)

Hah— no way! That's amazing... made my morning :)

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by jcb1973 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:34AM (#15450067)

And now thanks to discussion of Discover Weekly, I've discovered Steve Benjamins... Thanks!

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by jcb1973 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:35AM (#15450075)

And "Hi Steve!" - listening to "Purification Ritual" now...

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by steve-benjamins on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:14PM (#15450862)

Hi! :)

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by systemride on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:06PM (#15451801)

Never thought I would find a new artist on hacker news that I would like. Purification ritual is great!!

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by steve-benjamins on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:48PM (#15452218)

That's amazing— thanks!

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by georgiecasey on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:07AM (#15450359)

ya i think blogs are dying. i used to visit hypemachine daily from 2007-2014 but discover weekly has taken over that music discovery job.

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by capkutay on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:07AM (#15455989)

How do you get onto discover weekly?

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