Personalized Artist Radios just recommends you songs you already know

[cjschmitt620]

Personalized radios show a fundamental misunderstanding of what many users like to use artist radios for. When I go to an artist radio, I am almost always looking for music related to THAT artist. I am not looking for music curated to me specifically or to my tastes. I have my own playlists and Spotify already provides me with daily mixes. I go to artist radios for the vibe or sound of a specific artist and I am looking for other music that matches that vibe. 

As a developer myself I understand the push to keep the app moving forward and add new features. With all the data Spotify collects I'm sure you believe you can provide a better experience with personalized playlists than without, but currently this just isn't the case. It's ridiculous that a user that doesn't even have an account has access to a feature that premium users don't have access to, unpersonalized radios. 

You should either add an option in settings to disable personalized radios (which I'm sure you don't want to do, as you see data based music recommendations as a differentiator), or you need to add in an option within playlists to turn off the personalization. You can still have it default to personalized, but you should give users (especially premium users) the option to disable this feature at the very least. 

As a long time user of Spotify I want to you you be successful, but this feature has only made my experience worse than it was a year or two ago.

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iPhone 13

Operating System

iOS