Music

Here’s How To Use Spotify’s New ‘Only You’ Feature, Which Contains An ‘Audio Birth Chart’

"Look I get it I’m depressed let me live Spotify."

by Joseph Earp  3 June 2021
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Spotify have today launched ‘Only You’, a new feature that personalizes an array of lists that show off unique listening habits of the streaming service’s users.

‘Only You’ is similar in style to Spotify’s hugely popular ‘Wrapped’ feature, in that it uses data mined from listening preferences to create content. As opposed to ‘Wrapped’, however, ‘Only You’ features six separate lists, each designed to show off unique listening preferences.

Most interesting is the “Audio Birth Chart”. Log onto your Spotify, and the app will give you a kind of horoscope, featuring a “Sun”, “Moon” and “Rising” chart.

Your “Sun” artist is the one that you’ve listened to the most over the last six months, whereas the “Moon” artist is the most “emotional” performer that you listen to (as to how Spotify calculates emotional vulnerability, probably best not to guess. They’ve got algorithms for everything now). The “Rising” chart is the newest performer that you’ve tuned into recently.

‘Only You’ also provides lists based on which musical years you most dig, your strangest tonal left-turn (which two most disparate artists you’ve listened to in a row), a ‘Dream Dinner Party’ function which designs you a playlist based on three of your most-listened to artists, and a single-song list based on weird music that you’ve listened to at a particular time of the day.

As ‘Wrapped’ does every year, ‘Only You’ has totally taken over social media, with users across Twitter sharing their personalised content.

There’s no additional plug-ins needed for all this, it should be right on your home page. To access ‘Only You’, just sign into your Spotify account — it should pop up into your feed immediately.

‘Only You’ drops during a period of controversy for the streaming site. Artists are increasingly pointing out the ways that the app undervalues performers — single streams net musicians anywhere from $.003 to $.005, meaning that it takes many hundreds of streams to make a single dollar.

Last year, numerous musicians joined together in a movement called Justice At Spotify, and called out the company for “underpaying”, “misleading”, and “exploiting” artists for financial gain. You can read the full statement from the collective here.