Adele convinces Spotify to make big changes
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adele has convinced executives at Spotify to make changes to their service upon the release of her new album. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The British singer managed to persuade Spotify to remove the default shuffle option for new release albums. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a result, listeners can hear the track listing as it was intended to be heard by the artist. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adele shared the news with her Twitter followers, saying “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr">This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening 🍷♥️ <a href="https://t.co/XWlykhqxAy">https://t.co/XWlykhqxAy</a></p>
— Adele (@Adele) <a href="https://twitter.com/Adele/status/1462260324485242881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the shuffle option still comes up as the default on playlists, on individual albums, the tracks will be played in order. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Adele tweeted the news, Spotify replied to the songstress saying “Anything for you”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adele’s fourth studio album </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">30</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was released the day after the Spotify changes were made, which was highly anticipated after her six year hiatus. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She first teased the album on Instagram early in October, as the announcement boasts over 6 million likes. </span></p>
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