Spotify and Ancestry are teaming up to create playlists based on a user’s DNA.
Anyone who has ever submitted their DNA to ancestry via their at-home kits can link their account to Spotify and generate a playlist based on your music taste as well as music that’s culturally significant from your ancestral homelands.
via Complex:
“It’s so much more than the stats and the data and the records,” Ancestry Executive Vice president and Chief Marketing Officer Vineet Mehra told Quartz following the launch of the new Spotify promotion. “How do we help people experience their culture and not just read about it? Music seemed like an obvious way to do that.”
The folks over at Spotify echoed those words. The company’s Global Head of Partner Solutions Danielle Lee told Quartz that the idea of the Ancestry X Spotify playlists was to “encourage [Ancestry’s] audience to explore the soundtrack of their heritage.”
For folks who haven’t used Ancestry before, who perhaps aren’t comfortable with giving Ancestry a “perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable license to use [thier] DNA,” there is a neat, new feature that will break down your listening habits in Ancestry’s piecemeal style. However, if you’ve already handed over your DNA to Ancestry and would like to know what sort of playlists to expect, just take a look at this Jezebel writer’s experience with the service.
While her picks were fairly conventional, Spotify has been doing a lot to break up routine listening lately. They’ve made it easier than ever for independent artists to upload their work to the platform and allowed the same artists to submit their work for consideration in career-making playlists.
This feels…creepy.
