Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Spotify is leaning into catalog programming with the launch of its first-ever catalog hub, Spotify Classics, curated by the streaming service’s editorial team.
The program, which will be highlighted as a hub on the platform starting today, seeks to define more recent albums that the editorial team has deemed as streaming classics.
The collection of 30 records dates from 2015 to the present day in North America, contending with the notion of what makes a classic and how the artists shifted the public’s perception of what an album can and should be.
The list of projects from the last nine years spans a variety of hip-hop and R&B albums including Rihanna’s “Anti,” Travis Scott’s “Astroworld,” Jay-Z’s “4:44,” Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” Daniel Caesar’s “Freudian,” Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” and many more.
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