Other nights, I’ll go out for dinner with friends. I recently saw The 1975 at the O2 Arena which was mindblowingly good. I’ll hear from friends how a particular playlist has helped them through a tough moment. Is seeing the effect music can have on someone. Is that sometimes it feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get through the amount of music that is out there. My boyfriend said that meant he was 39 spots away from being Jay-Z. Was finding out I was on 2017’s BBC Woman’s Hour Women in Music Power List. I have to hit weekly deadlines for our Throwback Thursday and New Music Friday playlists, which are obviously time sensitive. We also have a weekly global meeting over Google Hangouts with all our offices from Stockholm to America – we’re live in 78 markets around the world. Sometimes in the afternoon, I’ll meet with a label, manager or artist to find out more about the projects they’re working on. We’ll get together and play music as a team, sharing what we’re excited about and what’s coming up.Īt about 1pm, I go for a walk around Soho and then heat up some soup back at the office. I have meetings with the other music editors throughout the week.
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Then I think about what the audience of each playlist I curate will enjoy and update the playlists as I go along. I start by focusing on new releases that are relevant to the areas I work on – mainly pop. I get through hundreds of songs each day. Most of my time is spent listening to music with my headphones on. Starts with breakfast in the office kitchen, usually porridge with berries and seeds and a mint tea. He told me about a vacancy on the team and I interviewed. A curator at Spotify liked the tweets and eventually we started chatting about our jobs.
I was a radio producer working on Sounds Of The 70s at BBC Radio 2 and would often tweet about Spotify’s Throwback Thursday playlist. I do a lot of playlists based on different decades or throwback songs.īy making a friend on Twitter. My main area is pop and catalogue, which is the term for anything that came out more than 18 months ago. My job is to support emerging and established artists and connect them with fans who are using our platform.
I joke that I like to dress like a Nineties toddler – but I make sure to put some lipstick on to elevate it.Ĭurating playlists at Spotify as part of our global music team. In the office, I usually wear Converse and dungarees. When I do, I listen to Spotify’s You Can Do It playlist to motivate myself. I set it for that time in the hope I’ll get up and go to the gym, but that only works about twice a week. Sara Sesardic, 30, is a senior music editor at Spotify.
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