Spotify quietly limits Release Radar playlist to 30 tracks from 200, tries to convince users that's how it always was
Release Radar - only 30 tracks max - The Spotify Communit…
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Release-Radar-only-30-tracks-max/td-p/6245103
Hi, I used to have between 100-200 tracks every friday on release radar, this week I only got 30. It seems it's the 'default' number when you don't follow lots of artists (which is not my case, I follow almost 2000 artists) How can I get back to getting all the new releases ? Thank you !
I have used Spotify for years, in spite of the fact that they pay artists terribly - the reason for this was that out of all the streaming services, they had the largest and most complete weekly playlist of new releases.
Having a new release playlist like this is quite important for DJs (or people who curate popular playlists... or people who just like music). I searched online and found that people have made posts on reddit stating that their new release playlists have also been severely limited.
After going to the Spotify forums, I came upon the bullshit I have linked, in which a Spotify employee tells everyone complaining that the playlist has always been limited to 30 tracks, and if anyone received more it was a temporary glitch (despite people providing evidence of having 200 tracks for 5+ years), or was caused by external factors (??? lol).
Personally I hate it when companies do things like this. I am not sure whether they are trying to get their power users to quit, or if they truly believe that they can get away with lying so blatantly.
I have decided that I will no longer be supporting them. Figured I would share in case anyone needs to make a decision regarding which service to go with.