Playlists Archives

Apple Music launches playlist import tool

10/09/2025

Apple Music has launched a long-awaited feature that enables users to import playlists and libraries from other streaming services, making switching platforms simpler than ever. The tool, previously in beta in Australia and New Zealand, is now rolling out across multiple countries including the UK. What’s New? Appears under ‘Transfer Music from Other Music Services’ in the Music app’s settings menu. Sign in to another service and select playlists, albums, and tracks to import. Rollout […]

YouTube Music and Bandsintown collaboration

YouTube Music Taste Match Playlist Explained

03/09/2025

YouTube Music just rolled out a fan-friendly update to celebrate its 10th birthday — headlined by Taste Match, a shared, auto-updating playlist that blends the listening tastes of everyone who joins. The release also brings comments on albums and playlists, concert listings via Bandsintown, alerts for new releases and shows, and fan badges to recognise top listeners. (Features are rolling out gradually worldwide.) What is Taste Match? Taste Match is a collaborative playlist that updates […]

Shazam hits 100 Bn song recognitions

09/12/2024

Shazam hits 100 Bn song recognitions since it launched which is equivalent to 12 songs identified for every person on Earth. Or to put it another way, a person would need to use Shazam to identify a song every second for 3,168 years to reach 100 Bn recognitions. Shazam’s top song ever, “Dance Monkey,” has over 45 million tags and Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” was the first track released this year to hit 10 million […]

Create custom cover art for Spotify playlists

27/10/2024

Create custom cover art for Spotify playlists with a beta rollout on the mobile app in English in 65 countries. Currently listeners have created over 8 Bn playlists covering every kind of musical mood and milestone in their life. The new feature offers both Free and Premium users the ability to create their own cover art with unique images, colours and text effects, graphic elements, and more, allowing them to make their music playlists more […]

Spotify extends AI Playlist Beta to more countries

15/10/2024

Spotify extends AI Playlist Beta to more countries following on from its initial launch in April 2024 to Premium subscribers in the UK and Australia. AI Playlist combines Spotify’s personalization technology with generative AI so users can turn their most creative ideas into playlists. To date, users in the UK and Australia have created millions of playlists that they keep coming back to. To create a playlist with AI Playlist just enter a unique prompt […]

Spotify increases daylist countries and languages

19/09/2024

Spotify increases its daylist coverage with an additional 65 countries in English and making it available to both Free and Premium subscribers. They have also added the following language support for this playlist – Arabic, Catalan, French (Canada), French (France), German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico) and Turkish. Originally rolled out last year in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland in English only, many users will […]

Create personalized playlists with Spotify’s AI Playlist

28/04/2024

Create personalized playlists with Spotify’s AI Playlist which has been released in Beta on Android and iOS devices in the UK and Australia. Available on Spotify Premium creating a new playlist with AI Playlist is as simple as typing a unique prompt into the chat. The AI Playlist pairs Spotify’s personalization technology with AI to deliver a personalized mix that can reference places, animals, activities, movie characters, colours and even emojis. The most successful playlists […]