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How do I get on the playlists in Spotify?

It is now considered a supreme discipline to be listed in a genre-typical popular playlist. With 158 million premium members and over 356 million monthly active users, Spotify is arguably the most popular online music streaming service worldwide. The most-followed playlists are heard by dozens of people, such as “Today’s Top Hits” with over 28 million followers or “RapCaviar” with over 13 million followers. In addition, the playlists with the greatest reach are monitored by experts from the music industry, who are always on the lookout for the next star in music heaven.

The million dollar question is of course: How do you secure a spot on one of Spotify‘s popular mood or genre-typical playlists? Here are my top 5 tips for musicians to catapult themselves onto one of the coveted lists and what are absolute no-gos.

Playlists 1-0-1: the basics

The most important thing is that the song is well received by the listeners. This means that users have

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