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Ok really baffling thing happened on Spotify. Last week I shared a collaborative playlist with a specific theme. Somehow this playlist got targeted by a bunch of users who are self publishing music to Spotify (verified artist types) who went and added their own random music...Permalink On twitter.com
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Here's what this looked like with some example artists. None of these artists sounded related, so a bunch of unconnected artists apparently all found my shared playlist and swarmed it in the hope that they'd get additional plays where listeners wouldn't notice the genre shift?Permalink On twitter.com
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This is a Twee playlist and the artists who invaded were: Spanish Electronic, Alt Rock, Trap, Rap, and EDM. Clearly a drive by of my playlist made only more baffling b/c apparently you can only see who added tracks to your playlist on the Spotify mobile app, but not desktop.Permalink On twitter.com
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I shared the playlist on Twitter & since Spotify has no moderation tools (like limiting collaborators to my friends) I knew there was a risk of random pop-ins, but this behavior is really weird. It feels like my playlist was posted up somewhere where rando artists got to it laterPermalink On twitter.com
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I'm also really unclear on what they (these random artists) wanted as an outcome for this? Is potentially 9 extra listens per song (the number of likes on that playlist) enough of a reason to go around playlist bombing me?Permalink On twitter.com
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Also, this seems like it would be *work* to do in any organized way? Like... what is the ROI on hunting down collaborative playlists and adding a bunch of your songs to them in the hope you don't get caught and people give you listens? How often does it even work?Permalink On twitter.com
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This is a good time to note that Spotify has really been going *backwards* on collaborative playlists. You can only see who added to a playlist on mobile app, I can't see datestamps on when a track was added anymore. This is really annoying...Permalink On twitter.com
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W/o some sort of controls over who can make changes to a playlist and what kind of changes they can make, or at least the capacity to revert those changes, it makes me worried about making a playlist collab. What if someone drops in and starts pulling tracks out of the playlist?On twitter.com
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Also, only somewhat related, but feels like a general trend in a bad direction when sometime this/last month Spotify changed language around playlist sharing. It used to be that playlists could be Public or Private but now they are only "Add to profile" & "Remove from profile".Permalink On twitter.com
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I just find this whole thing very confusing because... where did they find my Collaborative playlist in the first place? Are people searching Twitter for playlists to try and bomb? Is there a unique URL pattern that makes them easier to find so that this is more likely to happen?Permalink On twitter.com
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