Spotify’s new Upcoming Releases hub could also be my new favourite characteristic since Daylists, and now I can see all my pre-saved albums

• Spotify has launched a brand new characteristic in its search hub known as Upcoming Releases
• Customers can now view and pre-save upcoming albums from two lists primarily based on their listening historical past and essentially the most pre-saved albums globally
• Upcoming Releases additionally offers listeners with an area to entry Countdown Pages, merch, and extra

Spotify is de facto doing its bit to show that it’s nonetheless the greatest music streaming service, and its freshly-launched Upcoming Releases hub does simply that. The platform has simply rolled out the brand new characteristic, creating an in-app house devoted to retaining tabs on new album releases.

Yesterday Spotify introduced the characteristic in a weblog submit and, because the identify suggests, it should help you view and pre-save advisable soon-to-be-released albums primarily based in your private listening habits all from one place. Moreover, you’ll additionally have the ability to view the highest 10 anticipated new releases primarily based on the variety of world pre-saves.

One of many higher components of the Upcoming Releases hub is that it’s very straightforward to search out within the Spotify app. Head to the principle search hub and scroll right down to ‘Browse all’, and there you’ll discover the model new Upcoming Releases part subsequent to your ‘Made For You’ hub. From there, you’ll be able to pre-save upcoming albums hassle-free, and might shortly entry album Countdown Pages to view the tracklist, hearken to singles, try merch, and watch clips.

Upcoming Releases marks a primary for Spotify and considerably enhances the music streamer’s strategy to giving followers extra methods of staying within the loop with new music. Final yr Spotify launched Countdown Pages for artists which not solely breathed new life into album launch methods, however gave followers a brand new manner of partaking with the pre-release hype.

Now that Spotify has launched the Upcoming Releases hub powered by Countdown Pages, it might give the platform a leg-up for bringing you nearer to new music – and I’m already warming as much as it.

I like what I see, I prefer it quite a bit

Like all music obsessive, having my ear to the bottom with new music releases is in my nature, nonetheless it may be fairly the duty in relation to retaining tabs on new albums particularly in case you hearken to a number of totally different genres and artists like myself.

However Spotify’s Upcoming Releases hub may very well be the reply to all my new music questions, and I don’t suppose I’ve taken to a brand new characteristic this shortly since Daylists landed in 2023.

To date Upcoming Releases is proscribed to 2 totally different classes, ‘For you’ and ‘Top 10 countdowns’, which is the one draw back to the brand new characteristic however I’m hoping that is intentional.

It might make sense for Spotify to start out small after which construct on the characteristic as customers get used to it, so with that stated I’d wish to see Spotify add genre-specific suggestions for instance ‘Most popular indie upcoming releases’, or perhaps a part that teams soon-to-be-released albums from artists touring your native space.

I feel there’s a number of room for this new characteristic to evolve, nevertheless it’s nonetheless early days and in the intervening time, I’m simply excited to check the waters with it and see how typically the suggestions are up to date. In addition to, it should save me baggage of time scrolling via Metacritic’s checklist of recent releases to search out out who’s bringing out new materials.

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