Day 9

The 'To get you started' Playlist have left my recommendations
A new subheading has been introduced named 'Made for You' This is where the discover weekly playlist resides and this will give me an insight for the next weeks coming about my recommendations 

Right now the music I am being recommended does feel very similar. It is mostly RnB, rap, and some Alternative rock.


The 'One direction' playlist has disappeared as well which is disappointing as that may have switched up my recommended a bit. 

Mostly popular American artists still

SZA is looking to be the most recommended artists and her song Saturn was recommended to me 9 times during the course of today.

I listened to a summer songs playlist which did introduce some new artists 

I've noticed that there is no subheading called 'Artists I might like'. This should be a feature it would really help people branch out with their music tastes.

Each day I am recommended maybe one or two new playlist but I am still being recommended playlist I have seen since day 1.

It is interesting that Fred again and the Drum and Base genre has been recommended to be fare less than the other genres I picked even since day 1 Which suggests that it pushes more mainstream music to a user.

Something to look into in future research:

Does the RA only push mainstream music to a user?
If I choose more niche artists from genres like Jungle, Breakcore and Hyper pop will it recommend me those genres only or push more mainstream music like it has with me.

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