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Local Talent

An app that reads from your Spotify, knows what you like, and surfaces rising / local artists playing near you.

Why the idea started

I wanted to find local and rising artists sooner, because those are the artists I want to support. Most of my projects use AI inside the design cycle, so building an app on the Spotify API was quick to set up. I use it myself, and that was the point.

Short note  /  The statement

In 2022, 78.4% of artists on Spotify had under 50 monthly listeners.

Under 50 listeners78.4%
Everyone else21.6%

Those artists earn 0.003 to 0.0005 per stream, so under 50 listeners pays at most 25 cents a month. Discovery is the thing they are missing, and that is what Local Talent works on.

Source: The Unisverse  →
The case study about small artists on Spotify
The case study the statement comes from

Before and after

Home, with Local Talent in place

The home screen before and after Local Talent is added
A Local Talent shelf sits above Jump back in, so the new artists arrive where I already look

The screens

Eight screens · permission to ticket

Eight app screens, from listening permission through artist page to ticket confirmation
Permission, top artists, top genres, festivals, the Local Talent feed, an artist page, checkout and confirmation

In use

Prototype walkthrough