So, why does all this matter? When I shared an article about the demise of default auto shuffle on Facebook, my post inspired several comments. One artist enacts a change that will affect all artists. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended.” She tweeted, “We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. But Spotify will default to playing an album in its intended order of songs. Going forward, an album can still be played on shuffle mode if a listener chooses that. She tweeted that she has convinced Spotify to disable the default auto shuffle mode. This means that Spotify has prompted listeners to experience songs in some random order dictated by Spotify instead of people listening to songs in the sequence that the artist intended.
Adele’s Victory Explainedįor some time, when we listen to albums on Spotify, the app has defaulted to playing the entire album on auto shuffle. And she has enacted a change that will benefit artist and fans. This time around, she’s taken Spotify to task for how it serves up albums to listeners through random shuffle play. For instance, in 2015, she initially restricted her album 25 from Apple Music and Spotify because she believed that they devalue music by giving too much of it away for free. She also cares about how her music is shared and sold - which is why she has clashed with streaming services over the years. Adele is an artist who understands the power of big moments to create awareness and to build loyalty. ( Hypebot) - As the world knows, Adele recently unleashed her new album, 30, amid the fanfare and fan love that we are accustomed to seeing whenever she records new music.