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SoundCloud has announced a new personalized playlist for users called SoundCloud Weekly. Updated every Monday, the playlist appears at the top of your SoundCloud account under the “Discover” tab.
Like Spotify’s Discover Weekly, which has been around for three years, SoundCloud Weekly should reflect your listening habits and serve up 30 tracks and DJ mixes that fit what you’ve played recently. Aside from plays, SoundCloud also takes into account the tracks you like and share when it decides what to put on the playlist.
A weekly playlist is an obvious, if not late, step for SoundCloud, which has been trying to regain footing under the eye of new CEO Kerry Trainor since last summer. Under Trainor’s direction, SoundCloud has seen several...