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Discography in Chronological Order

Spotify provides a great Discography option, but it is sorted from newest to oldest.  I would typically want to listen to the Discography in the order it was released.  Seems like a simple addition to enable sorting the Discography by release date with oldest first (or toggle to newest first).

 

Is there already a way to do this that I'm missing?

Updated on 2025-04-04

Hey folks,

 

Happy to share with you that this is now implemented on desktop devices and the Web Player! 
You can now sort artist discographies in chronological order 🙂

Cheers & many thanks for adding your support to this Idea. All the best!

Comments
MF79

I often listen artist's full catalogue or few albums in chronological order. Now I have to compose queue to make that happen.

Being able to reverse album order would be a helpful feature.

Jer

Friends,

 

Yes, being able to reverse album order is a good idea.  For one thing you'd be able to evaluate the artist's  development over time.

 

Cheers!

 

Jer

 

I completely agree with this suggestion. I prefer to start with the earliest album and listen in chronological order. It would be nice to just be able to toggle between the orders easily, kind of how files on a computer could be sorted.

 

-saturnineinch

FatIgor

Found this thread when searching for a way to do this type of sorting. It is definitely needed.

 

Igor.

askeeve

PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!

chuckstabiz

It'd be awesome if you could flip the order of the albums displayed so that you could easily listen to an artist from chronological order.

 

As it stands, lets say there's an artist with 4 albums.

 

Album D (2012)

Album C (2010)

Album B (2009)

Album A (2006)

 

If you listen to album A, there's nothing to listen to at the end. However, if you music could be sorted like this:

 

Album A (2006)

Album B (2009)

Album C (2010)

Album D (2012)

 

 

Then after listening to the last track of album A, it would go on to track on on Album B.

 

I'd like this since I'm mainly an album listener and I'd like to just click on track one of Album A and have it just play through Album B, C, and D without having to make a playlist or mess with making a queue.

halpwr

Why is it that when looking at an artist, sometimes albums aren't sorted chronologically by time? Could that be an option? 

 

Seems you can't even listen to an artist chronologically, because Spotify uses a weird way to sort...

Greeface

I agree that this is necessary.  I often have to bust open the alternate media player because of this.

Marco
Status changed to: Duplicate

This idea has already been suggested here:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Artist-s-Albums-Reversed-Sorting-Feature/idi-p/14875

Add your kudos there please! 😉
kapelophilus

I want to know where an artist has come from, and how they have changed and developed their work. This hard to do currently without creating hundreds of carefully-organized playlists that clutter up my side-bar. Please add this feature!