The genre selection will appear at the top of the playlist and help suggest 30 songs per week based on the user's music listening history. Spotify also redesigned the interface with a more brilliant style, reflecting the constant change and spirit of music discovery every week.
Spotify says Discover Weekly has led to more than 100 billion music listenings since its launch.
The new feature is currently only for Spotify Premium users, but will be expanded in the near future. The genre option will start rolling out today on the mobile app and will be available to users in the next few weeks.
Discover Weekly is a music list personalized by Spotify for each user, updated every Monday. This list includes 30 new songs that you have never heard on Spotify but are suggested by the system based on: Your music listening history; What users have the same music listening taste as you are listening to and genre analysis algorithms, rhythms, artists, ...
Discover Weekly's goal is to help users explore new music naturally, without manual searches. This is one of Spotify's most highly rated features when it was launched in 2015.
