Pavement’s “Harness Your Hopes” And Spotify’s Algorithm – Stereogum
Songs emerging from obscure back-catalogue status thanks to glitches in the “Autoplay” algorithm:
Spotify appears to have the capacity to create “hits” without even realizing it. When it comes to Galaxie 500, “there’s just no way this would have happened before this flip in the Spotify plays,” Krukowksi notes. “And now we’re becoming identified as a band with that song, because if they learn about the band through Spotify, that’s what they’re hearing. So it becomes, like, our emblem.”
(tags: technology music spotify streaming galaxie-500 pavement autoplay)