Hello everyone!   It's that time of the year. The Community Music Chat Team is back, and once again is looking for upcoming artists to submit their new releases for the Eighteenth Edition of Artists Wanted: Share Your Talent With The Community.     How does "Artists Wanted Edition No 18" work?   On a regular basis, we (the Community Music Chat Team) will post a thread (like this one) looking for submissions, so keep an eye out! Artists participating have to be members of the Community and have a Spotify artist account. Artists are welcome to post their original songs and intros in a comment below (only one comment per band/artist please). Note: If an artist has already participated in a previous edition of this project, they can submit again only with a new release of theirs.  Questions artists should answer to participate Artist/Band name: Where are you based?: Main genre of music: Describe your sound/music in a few words: Spotify link to one of your most recent original song (from 2025): Handle for one social media of your choice: Who are your musical inspirations: Anything else you'd want to add to help users to get to know you better: The Community Music Chat Team will go through all submissions, and propose a few for the entire Community to vote on. Once the results are in, we'll contact the winner, and they will be featured in our Community blog!   When will submissions and voting occur?   Artists submissions: from December 8th to January 11th (Midnight Pacific Time) Community vote: from January 26th to February 1st (Midnight Pacific Time)   Where to participate?   We'll hand it over to you, artists on the Spotify Community - post your answers to our questions in a comment below. Don't be shy, we'll be very glad to hear your tracks and read your replies!   Note - We ask artists to submit only original songs and not covers. Also, artists should not post/embed videos, as we'd like to keep the ground fair for smaller artists with lesser budgets.   P.S. When it comes to choosing the winning artist, we'll give equal chance to the finalists to gather votes from the forum's users; so don't get discouraged if you enter your submission at a later point and don't gather too many likes in this thread.   If a song is selected for being submitted to the Community vote, artists are allowed to mention it to their followers, in Spotify, as in Social Medias. Please be fair with all contestants and support participation with our Community by asking them to listen to all submissions.   We also reserve the right to refuse songs if the song content is in breach of Community guidelines. Should this happen we'll aim to reach out to you and discuss the decision.   WARNING: Submissions posted after the deadline, or songs that are too old, will not be taken into account. ... View more

I have to go with this one: https://open.spotify.com/track/6aeKPkMywDDYWtPBsbfO50?si=6aa4299fe90e4392 ... View more

If you’ve spent any time in the Spotify Community, you’ll know one of the most talked-about topics is shuffle. There are endless threads about hearing the same songs too often. There’s even a huge Community Idea for a “true shuffle” option that’s been around for a while.   From Thursday 13th November, Spotify will be rolling out a change for Premium users that I think many of you will appreciate. You’ll now be able to choose between two shuffle styles: 🎧 Fewer repeats This one’s designed to keep things feeling fresh. It pays attention to what you’ve played recently and tries to reduce how often the same songs come around. You’ll still get randomness, but with less déjà vu. It’s a great way to rediscover tracks you haven’t heard in a while. 🎲 Standard This is the standard shuffle mode that Spotify has used over the past few years. Every track gets an equal chance, completely at random. That means sometimes you’ll get repeats or the same artist a few times in a row. That's just how pure randomness works!   What’s really nice here is the choice. Some listeners love a truly random shuffle, while others just want more variety, and now you can pick what suits your mood.   The update is available now for all Premium users. If you don’t see the option yet, try restarting your app or checking for the latest update in your app store.   Spotify will continue to fine-tune the new “Fewer repeats” option, so if you give it a go and still feel like you’re hearing the same songs too often, let them know in the comments below or in the shuffle discussions here in the Community.   There’s also more about how these shuffle styles work on the Spotify Support site, and this Engineering Blog.   Personally, I’m really happy to see this change. Shuffle feedback has been around forever, and it’s great to see user voices leading to new options in the app. Can’t wait to see what everyone thinks of it!   Screenshot of the Spotify settings page including the new Shuffle options ... View more