Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Create a folder and save them each week.

lol the only artists I got were iLoveMakonnen and A$AP Ferg

i'm a charli xcx one percenter and i blame johnny fever

I am comfortable with this.

Glenn, the new Peaches track "Dick in the Air" is attributed to the wrong Peaches. http://open.spotify.com/album/7F5bywB7OEgeoFYFf6CJPD

Create a folder and save them each week.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 9 September 2015

I was on holiday so I was hoping to get last monday weeks one.

Ew on Peaches. Will pass that along.

disambiguating artists is a lot harder than it seems like it would be

i like these kind of toys
top nine percent for rich homie quan, kacey musgraves, a$ap ferg, earl sweatshirt, quadron
top five percent for fka twigs, ariana grande, lorde, charli xcx
two percent for alunageorge, fifth harmony, becky g
one percent for FETTY WAP

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, September 9, 2015 12:24 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i'm identical or similar on all of those except quadron, fetty, alunageorge, 5th harmony and becky

1 percenter for charli, fka and banks

I'm at 1% on Charli XCX, FKA Twigs and Run the Jewels (who I can't remember ever listening to tbh). Also have Courtney Barnett and AlunaGeorge. Can't believe I was too slow for the Becky G train.

first 1% for fka twigs, k michelle, charli xcx, ten walls :/

obv more popular artist (all of the above meet a minimum threshold, none obscure really) makes it easy to get in that earliest percentile, would be curious who the hell i'm among the first 10 or 100 or 1000 listeners of if anyone

lol i wonder what percent of the first 1% of fka twigs or charli xcx listeners are on ilx or lurk at least

pretty sure they only compute it for artists that "made it" by some metric, but yeah

i'm pretty sure the other formula would just yield 'holy shit this old local band's one album is on spotify'

"no results found for porn orchard" :(

ha, if it's the same porn orchard, i had their single! john peel played it a couple of times in the early days of grunge ~1988

I'm curious as to what results Glenn McDonald gets on the Foundthemfirst.

yes, another first 1% for fka twigs here!

Have found with a few of the recent updates that it resets settings so you're no longer connected to last.fm and have to log back in plus the quality level has defaulted to lower too - really annoying as it's not immediately obvious in either case.

1% for Charli, 10% for Capital Cities. Skeptical of these results.

1% for Charli, 6% for the 1975

Bunch of 1 percenters here I guess

Charli XCX and FKA Twigs both placed on the 2013 eoy tracks poll, I guess a bunch of us listened to them then.

Got CHVRCHES, Lorde, and..... 2% for Charli XCX

i got 1% on charli xcx - if there's any evidence this thing isn't just "BRAVO, YOU'VE PLAYED ONE OF THESE FIVE BUZZ CLIPS ACTS BEFORE" i'd love to see it

"oooh i wonder if this will tell me which 60s artists I..."

"YOU PLAYED CHARLI AFTER PITCHFORK TOLD YOU TO BUT BEFORE BOOM CLAP, OOOH YOU SEXY"

fwiw another chvrches and charli xcx result here, don't remember the percentages

ya i got charli, fka, rtj as 1%s too
and a couple of peeps i never heard of

tbf one can only upload so many press photos into that animation

if only i could have given mtv access to my viewing history so that it could tell me i was one of the first to see a big audio dynamite II video

I actually got only 2 artists on my Found Them First, due to the top% thing. On the Spotify spectrum my stream-counts per artist are extremely low (and my artist counts are extremely high), so I'm almost never in any artist's top 10% of listeners by quantity or share or anything like that. Plus I was mainly using Rdio for my personal listening before the Echo Nest got bought by Spotify, so my Spotify listening history basically starts in 2014. But even without that I see only 15 of these "breakout" artists, at most, that I would think I might have found before they took off. I find lots of artists that aren't big, but most of them don't ever get big. Hit-prediction is not exactly one of my skills.

To your question, da croupier, there are more than 200 artists in the set, but obviously the top 10% of Lorde listeners encompasses a lot more people than the top 10% of Broods listeners, so it makes sense that the artists people mention are disproportionately from the handful of most popular artists. Even without the ILM selection bias...

if there are 200 artists in the set, but everybody's going to be told about the same 4, it's a bad app

like, at least sell it as "are you a trainspotter?" and give me access to where I stand on ALL the acts. "Who have did you hear first?" leading to an auto-play of "Boom Clap" and nothing else is a shitty payoff for ok'ing phrases as ominous as "let us manage your prive playlists"

private playlists

I didnt find anyone first. fuck you spotify.

But the playlist permission thing is so we can create your "Found Them First" playlist, not so we can play you the songs by the artists you already know. Did you click through to get yours?

ok so i rebrought up the auto-play of "boom clap" page (and auto-play? seriously? that's like a "bad restaurant website" mistake) and the only text is

FIRST STREAMED ON DECEMBER 9, 2013
CHARLI XCX
KUDOS, YOU'RE IN THE FIRST 3% OF ALL LISTENERS

her picture, and below is a Tweet button and Share button (No thanks! apparently all my friends got Charli too).

There's a spotify logo in the upper left corner, the "oh you don't wanna hear boom clap right now?" button on the upper right.

aaaaaand in the middle far right there is 1/1 (representing the one artist i've been an early listener to, despite having playlists with literally every top 40 act from 1960-2000 and every modern rock charter from 1989-1999). Below that, a little white nub.

Now, I had not scrolled over the little white nub yet (gee, with this user experience, you'd think i would have been inclined to explore). Now I am, and it's revealing that my 1/1 is Charli XCX (good info), and below that are the words "Your Playlist."

So I guess that's how I click through to get the playlist I had no way of knowing was being offered until I either a) scrolled over a tiny white nub on the far right of page or b) bitched about this stupid exercise on a message board and was heard by a spotify employee.

As the only information I've been given is "You listened to charli xcx before boom clap came out" - I can't say that's enough to make me want a playlist devoted to this factoid. Sorry.

I love that Run the Jewels is coming up in a lot of these. Congrats everyone who discovered some dudes with a decade of experience, one of them who has been on album that went 11 times platinum

smh @ da croupier who exhausted every way to interact with this program then says "this is not for me"

lol whiney "every way to interact" consisted of scrolling over a single nub and turning off auto-play

"after I pounded five beef 'n cheddars, I was like, 'You know what, Arby's is terrible'"

ok now you're really projecting

dogg, you logged in, used the program, posted your results on a message board (and who knows what other social media), bragged about your weird "literally every top 40 act from 1960-2000" playlists, thus completely satisfying everything Spotify wanted to accomplish with this program

in that way, i would say it's a grand success

whiney this would sting a lot more if you didn't try to troll me at every possibility

i can promise you i posted these results on no other social media

the beef goes on and on and on and on and

i inhale it

also i wasn't bragging about my "weird" playlist (only thing i find weird is when a nerd tries to call other nerds nerds), just giving evidence as to why i expected more than a picture of a single pop star and autoplay of their big hit when offered "who i heard first"

lol katherine

da croup, why would a top 40 act from 2000 show up in a "you listened to them on spotify before anyone else" playlist?

I didn't find anyone first, and I blame that mostly on Canada not having Spotify till late last year, but the playlist that Spotify made for me consisted of several artists that I have already listened to on Spotify, like Susanne Sundfor, so perhaps it's just a matter of time.