On Wednesday, Spotify launched a brand new customized playlist designed to assist listeners uncover upcoming live shows of their space.
The playlist, titled “Live shows Close to You,” is up to date each Wednesday with 30 songs from artists performing close by, together with full occasion particulars and ticket hyperlinks. Spotify companions with ticketing platforms like AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, and Ticketmaster.
Like different customized playlists on Spotify, akin to “Daylist” and numerous “Mixes,” “Live shows Close to You” is tailor-made to customers’ listening habits, permitting them to find artists they love.
To obtain the newest present updates, listeners ought to guarantee they’re sharing their location by way of the “Reside Occasions” part, discovered below the Search tab within the Spotify app. Spotify additionally recommends enabling push notifications and following favourite artists to obtain customized reminders.
The launch of the brand new playlist alerts the corporate’s ambition to make occasion discovery a extra important facet of the general Spotify listening expertise whereas additionally offering artists extra visibility.
The announcement follows Spotify’s publication of its yearly Loud & Clear report, which supplies detailed figures concerning its funds to counter claims that the platform doesn’t adequately compensate artists. For the primary time, an artist who obtained one in each million streams on the platform earned a mean of over $10,000 in 2024.
