Spotify launches app to find out which artists users helped to discover

PanARMENIAN.Net - Spotify launched “Found Them First” app that dives into users’ listening history to surface which new artists they helped “discover.”

Users just have to connect their Spotify account to the Web app, and it scans their records to reveal how much of a cutting-edge music fan they are.

The new app shows you tracks where you were in the first 1-15 percent of listeners, and it defines a “breakout” artist as having 20 million streams, and a growth-rate of 2,000 percent between January 2013 and June 2015.

“This experience is an ode to the fans who truly love discovering new artists,” said Jackie Jantos, Spotify’s VP of creative and brand strategy. “Users are rewarded for listening early on, and earn some bragging rights.”

It’s a fun little experiment for sure, and it even lets you share a playlist of all the tracks you were “first on the scene” to, as well as other related “breakout” artists. This all feeds into Spotify’s big push to help you discover fresh music, and comes just a few months after it introduced a weekly playlist of recommended music based on your listening habits.

However, just because you listened to a track early on, this surely doesn’t mean you actually liked it? It maybe played randomly through Spotify Radio, or perhaps someone at your party played it. It turns out that Spotify did actually think about this. “Early listener” is defined as someone who has streamed an artist at least five times in a month. So although Spotify Radio data is included, the random nature of the service means it would be highly unlikely that the same song would play more than five times in a single month.