For example, the catalog of songs available to listen to hardly varies at all, and any exclusives are mostly negligible. Spotify and Amazon Music both offer a lot of the same features. The Amazon Music mobile app offers integrated support for Alexa voice control. In Spotify's case, it's definitely an advantage to have such a solid desktop app. For instance, the design makes it difficult to use the listening queue mechanism.įor listening on your computer, Amazon Music's web interface is better and simpler to use than its app. The interface on a Mac is unintuitive and completely unlike its mobile app counterpart. The Amazon Music desktop app, on the other hand, is very utilitarian. In March 2021, the streaming service announced an updated interface to allow offline downloads and give "more control" for creating playlists. Spotify's desktop app is decent and has been refined over more than a decade. This is where the two experiences differ. While most people use music services through their mobile devices, both Spotify and Amazon Music do offer desktop apps as well. Amazon and Spotify each feature a navigation bar across the bottom of their mobile apps with a home screen, search, and collected library of music. The look and feel of both streaming services are similar. These biases, however, do little to explain the low female share of streaming on Spotify, which we instead attribute to the relatively low share of female songs entering the platform.Spotify features an easy to use desktop app. We find some evidence consistent with bias (in favor of women at Today's Top Hits as well as in the New Music rankings, and against women at some global playlists).
Second, we test for bias in New Music Friday playlist ranking decision based on outcomes, asking whether songs by female artists stream more, conditional on their New Music Friday rankings.
First, we ask whether songs by female artists are differently likely to appear on global playlists, conditional on the past success of the artists, song characteristics such as genre, and gender. We employ two broad tests for gender bias. We explore the roles of female participation, along with promotion decisions at the platform - in particular playlist inclusion - in explaining the female share of successful songs and artists at Spotify in 2017. Women account for about a fifth of the most successful artists at Spotify, prompting some concerns about bias. The growth of online platforms has raised questions about their power and the possibility that it could be exercised with bias, including by gender.
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