Look up your favorite songwriters on Spotify with Songwriter pages

You can learn more about the songwriters your favourite artists collaborate with through this new Spotify beta feature called "Songwriter pages." With this feature, it'll soon allow you to click on a songwriter's name in the credits to learn more about their work. But it isn't an in-app function. Instead, it'll open a webpage that lists the songwriter's other works. The webpage even has a playlist link you can listen to when you want to discover other music from the songwriters. One of the live Songwriter pages is of Teddy Geiger, a frequent collaborator of Canadian pop superstar Shawn Mendes.

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Spotify can generate playlists for your pets

How many times has your beloved puppy had to listen to your occasionally questionable taste in music? Well, Spotify is helping create a playlist specifically for your pet. The catch is they either have to be a cat, dog, bird, hamster, or iguana. Head to this link, answer a few questions to describe them, and then upload a photo. Soon you'll be bopping along with your baby's favourite tunes. 

Shawn Mendes tops Spotify's list of songs most listened to by Waze users in 2019

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Three Canadian artists make the list of Spotify's top 10 songs listened to by Waze users around the world in 2019. At number one, we have Pickering-born Shawn Mendes with Camila Cabello for the song "Señorita." Mendes is joined by Snow, who collaborated with Daddy Yankee for the number 2 song "Con Calma." Then there's Justin Beiber in the fourth spot with his collaboration with Ed Sheeran on the track "I Don't Care." You can check the full list under the cut.

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Spotify pushes for podcast listening with new feature

Do you want to listen to podcasts but don't know where to start? Spotify is adding a button to free users' homepages that will ask them what topics they're interested in so that the streaming service can suggest podcasts for you to listen to. These will only show up for users who have never listened to podcasts on the service before, and it'll only be available in Canada, Brazil, Denmark, the US, Ireland, Great Britain, New Zealand, Sweden, Mexico, and Australia. The topics will differ by country and user, because recommended shows will be based on factors, including local popularity.

With Spotify's acquisition of Gimlet Media, Parcast, and Anchor, as well as creating teams to develop exclusive shows, Spotify wants as many people to listen to their content. But the streaming service wants to clarify that they won't just recommend their shows.

Source: The Verge