{"id":804095,"date":"2020-02-12T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=951370"},"modified":"2020-02-12T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T15:00:39","slug":"spotifys-new-tool-wants-to-make-liner-notes-cool-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/spotifys-new-tool-wants-to-make-liner-notes-cool-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify\u2019s New Tool Wants to Make Liner Notes Cool Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotify<\/a> is launching a new feature called Songwriter Pages that aims to give listeners a better look at the creators behind their favorite songs.<\/p>\n

The streaming service has roped in hit writers including Meghan Trainor, Fraser T Smith (Adele, Sam Smith), Missy Elliott, Teddy Geiger (One Direction, Shawn Mendes, 5 Seconds of Summer), Ben Billions (The Weeknd, Beyonc\u00e9) and Justin Tranter (Selena Gomez, Camila Cabello, Imagine Dragons), who have all made their new songwriter pages available for music fans to view, though the program at large is still in beta mode. Not only is the project meant as a win for the nerdiest of music fans \u2014 it\u2019s also potentially useful in connecting collaborators.<\/p>\n

According to reps, Spotify has seen a 60% increase in the crediting of songwriters by labels and distributors when uploading new music since it began publicly displaying song credits in 2018. Now, those credits are clickable, so users don\u2019t have to copy and paste a name in Google and scour notoriously unreliable sites to piece together what else the creator has worked on.<\/p>\n

To start playing around with these new capabilities, a user has to right-click on a track, hit \u201csong credits\u201d and select a clickable songwriter\u2019s name. Spotify says the project aims to be user-friendly, transparent, and accurate. (That said, we\u2019ve only seen the tip of the iceberg so far, and we\u2019re talking about an iceberg as mainstream as the one that sunk the Titanic. The feat of collecting data for every indie darling will undoubtedly prove daunting.)<\/p>\n

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Assuming Spotify will roll the project out to a wider group of songwriters, this development could make the jobs of music supervisors \u2014 who are regularly tasked with finding and clearing the usage of left-of-center songs to soundtrack their film\/TV projects \u2014 a little bit easier. And creators like it when music supervisors\u2019 lives are made even the slightest bit easier, because those actions could lead the way to some seriously hefty checks from music spots in films, a.k.a. sync licensing.<\/p>\n

Spotify\u2019s new project will also show music fans a creator\u2019s most-frequent artist collaborators. For songwriter\/hitmaker Teddy Geiger, that means Shawn Mendes \u2014 with whom he wrote huge hits \u201cStitches,\u201d \u201cTreat You Better,\u201d \u201cMercy,\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s Nothing Holdin\u2019 Me Back\u201d and \u201cIn My Blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up, I looked at the back of my favorite albums to see who was involved in making them \u2014 from writers and producers to the engineers and instrumentalists,\u201d Geiger said in a statement accompanying Spotify\u2019s release. \u201cThose credits inspired me to explore making music and it\u2019s great to see Spotify supporting the work that we all do behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spotify\u2019s Songwriter Pages also include \u201cWritten By\u201d playlists, which act in essence like digital portfolios. \u201cSpotify is always working to create new and better ways to promote music discovery \u2014 for artists, for songs and, increasingly, for songwriters,\u201d says Spotify head of publishing and songwriter relations Jules Parker. \u201cThe launch of publicly visible songwriter credits on Spotify in 2018 was merely a first step. Together with the publishing industry, we\u2019ve continued to evolve our data sharing and analytics efforts, and are proud to unveil this next iteration\u2026 We\u2019re excited to see how the world interacts with these new features, and look forward to enabling them for more and more songwriters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plus, it\u2019s always a hoot to find out that Trent Reznor is credited on \u201cOld Town Road\u201d because Lil Nas X unknowingly sampled a track<\/a> from Nine Inch Nails\u2019 2008 instrumental project Ghosts I-IV \u2014 <\/em>or that Right Said Fred was credited on \u201cLook What You Made Me Do\u201d because Taylor Swift very knowingly drew inspiration from 1991\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Too Sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Spotify is launching a new feature called Songwriter Pages that aims to give listeners a better look at the creators behind their favorite songs. The streaming service has roped in hit writers including Meghan Trainor, Fraser T Smith (Adele, Sam Smith), Missy Elliott, Teddy Geiger (One Direction, Shawn Mendes, 5 Seconds of Summer), Ben Billions (The Weeknd, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 00:01:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}