Spotify now lets you search by songwriter with clickable credits
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Reported today in The Verge.
Spotify now lets you search by songwriter with clickable credits
Spotify launched a beta program today for clickable songwriter credits called "songwriter pages." If a songwriter is included in the beta, listeners can click on their name in a track's credits to view a page with all of the songs they've written. Spotify added song credits back in 2018, but this is the first time any of them have been clickable.
To access a songwriter's profile, click the three dots next to a track, and then select "song credits." When you select a clickable songwriter name, it opens their Spotify for Artists webpage, which now shows all of the songs they've written and their top collaborators. There's also a "listen on Spotify" button that opens up a playlist compiled of their work. These playlists, like the songwriter profiles, are only on web for now.
For example, if you view Justin Bieber's "Sorry" on the Spotify app and display the song's credits, two of the songwriters are now clickable: Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter. Other songwriters participating at launch include Meghan Trainor, Fraser T Smith, Missy Elliott, Teddy Geiger, and others. Spotify says that songwriters can request their own page to be included as the program continues to roll out.
As it's a beta, it's still a work in progress. But there are some obvious bummers. For one, taking people outside of the app is a little messy. Also, the primary image shown on a songwriter page isn't the songwriter, but the art for the most-streamed track they've written. That means you won't see Julia Michaels on her songwriter profile; instead, there's a big image of Justin Bieber.
The inclusion of more expansive song credits has been slowly adopted by several streaming platforms over the past couple of y