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Spotify launches a new personalized playlist to help listeners discover upcoming concerts in their area. Concerts Near You is updated every Wednesday.
Every Wednesday, the personalized playlist is updated with 30 songs from artists performing nearby, complete with event details and links to buy tickets. To make this happen, Spotify is partnered with ticketing platforms including Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, DICE, and AXS.
Like Spotify’s other personalized playlists, “Concerts Near You” is based on users’ listening habits to enable them to find artists that fit their tastes. To make sure users are getting the latest concert updates, they should navigate to the Live Events section and make sure they’re sharing their location. Spotify recommends enabling push notifications and following favorite artists to receive personalized reminders.
This latest launch follows Spotify’s recent publication of its annual Loud & Clear report, which details information about the platform’s royalty payments. According to Spotify, an artist who received one in every million streams on the service generated over $10,000 on average in 2024. That’s 10 times what the same share would have generated a decade ago, Spotify says.
Spotify is champing at the bit to show the amount it has paid out to artists and songwriters to disprove the reports that the company doesn’t properly compensate artists for their work. But many in the music industry are still demanding fair compensation from the company.
Just a few weeks ago, several Grammy-nominated songwriters boycotted Spotify’s songwriter of the year party over the company’s decreasing royalties. Due to changes in the way Spotify bundles its offerings, estimates show that songwriters and publishers stand to lose around $150 million over a 12-month period.
Further, Apple Music still pays artists about twice as much as Spotify does, according to a report from Duetti. That report found that Spotify paid artists only $3 per 1,000 streams, whereas competitors like Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube paid $8.80, $6.20, and $4.80 respectively in 2024. Spotify asserts these claims are “ridiculous and unfounded,” however.
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