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STRAY KIDS - 5 STAR ON SPOTIFY

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Spotify is a popular digital music streaming platform that allows users to access a vast library of songs, podcasts, and other audio content. With Spotify, users can listen to music on demand by streaming songs directly to their devices, such as smartphones, tablets, or computers. Spotify offers both free and premium subscription options. The free version is ad-supported and provides limited features, such as shuffle play and occasional audio ads. The premium subscription removes ads, allows unlimited skips, and provides additional features like offline playback, high-quality audio streaming, and the ability to select and play specific songs on-demand.

Use any Valid Email Address to create a Spotify Account, then activate a 30 day free trial. You do have to enter a payment method but it does not charge you till your trial is over. We suggest using the FAMILY PLAN FREE TRIAL it allows you to add 5 additional Spotify Accounts to your 'family' allowing all of them to have access to Spotify Premium Subscriptions.

If you have a PAYPAL Account you can get a 3 month free trial or you can also use your Outlook or Hotmail accounts to see if you qualify for a 3 month free trial thru Microsoft.

Spotify Premium Plan Options

SPOTIFY STREAMS COUNT TOWARDS BILLBOARD 200 & HOT 100

For detailed information about how streams are counted see our Billboard Breakdown!

For updates about Spotify & premade Focused Playlists

follow SKZLIST, SKZ on STATIONHEAD, and SKZ STREAMS!

SPOTIFY DAILY TRACKING IS FROM 8:00 pm - 7:59 pm EST | 9:00 am - 8:59 am KST

HOW DOES SPOTIFY COUNT STREAMS?

Song stream: Counted when someone listens for 30 seconds or more
Release stream count: All song streams from the release added up. If a song appears on multiple releases, it counts towards the stream count on every release.
Downloaded Music & Streaming Offline: Spotify counts streams when the listener come back online & logs into Spotify, which must happen at least once every 30 days for the streams to be added.

SPOTIFY GUIDELINES

Once you create an account & log in the first thing you should do is check your settings and anytime you log into your account on a new device or after an app update make sure they are still set accordingly.

Turn ON location to help with chart tracking, especially USA & PR STAYs for Billboard. Do NOT use a VPN.
TURN OFF AUTO PLAY!

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR SPOTIFY STREAMING

Listen to the FULL newly released Song or Album, then start using your focused playlists.
Like or '♡' each song as well as the album.
Do NOT mute Spotify, muting your device or sound controls on PC is allowed, we recommend using headphones as well.
Do NOT loop songs or playlists.
Do NOT use a VPN or APK packs.
Interact frequently with Spotify- Pause, Like, Share, Skip (ONLY SKIP AFTER 30 SECONDS HAS PLAYED), Etc.
Use 3-4 Spotify Accounts, change after every 2-3 Hours, at most 4-5.
You can use multiple browsers and multiple accounts on the same IP address

STEPS ON HOW TO MAKE A PLAYLIST

To create a playlist on Spotify, follow these steps:

Launch the Spotify application on your device or visit the Spotify website on your computer.
Sign in to your Spotify account or create a new account if you don't have one already.
Once you're logged in, you'll be on the Spotify home screen. Look for the "Your Library" option in the left sidebar and click on it.
In the "Your Library" section, you'll see several options. Click on the "Playlists" tab.
On the top-right corner of the "Playlists" page, you'll find a green button labeled "Create Playlist." Click on it.
A pop-up window will appear where you can give your playlist a name. Enter a descriptive title for your playlist.
Optionally, you can also add a description to your playlist to provide more context or information.
Choose whether you want your playlist to be public, private, or collaborative. Public playlists can be discovered and followed by other Spotify users, while private playlists are only visible to you. Collaborative playlists allow other users to add or remove tracks.
Click on the "Create" button to create your playlist.
Your new playlist will now appear in the "Playlists" section of your library. To add songs to your playlist, you can search for specific tracks, albums, or artists in the Spotify search bar.
Once you find a song you want to add, right-click on it (or long-press on mobile) and select "Add to Playlist."
In the pop-up window that appears, choose the playlist you want to add the song to and click "Add."
Repeat the process to add more songs to your playlist. You can add songs from different albums, artists, or genres.
To rearrange the order of the songs in your playlist, simply click and drag the tracks to the desired position.
You can also edit your playlist by clicking on the three-dot menu icon next to the playlist's name. From there, you can rename the playlist, change the description, update the privacy settings, or delete the playlist if needed.

That's it! You have successfully created a playlist on Spotify and added songs to it. You can access your playlists at any time from the "Playlists" section in the Spotify app or website.

FOCUSED PLAYLIST SETUP GUIDELINES

If you choose to make your own playlists instead of using one made by a Fanbase you need to be sure you set up the rotation to ensure your streams do NOT get filtered out, the following guidelines are used to make sure this does not happen and every stream counts.

DO NOT USE 24 HOUR PLAYLISTS, 2-4 hour playlists are ideal. You can queue several shorter playlists & it counts as streams. Avoid longer playlists that are 8-9 hours.
During Comeback be sure your playlists are Title Track Focused.
Use 2-3 SKZ Bsides as fillers in between the Focused Track.
Keep your playlists 2-4 hours long maximum, this is suggested to avoid filtering out streams.
Use NON-SKZ Fillers every 12-14 songs, make it random, try to make sure your Playlist is not overtly repetitive or structured, avoid patterns. Avoid using songs that are competing on current charts as fillers. Generally, 1 Non-SKZ filler every hour of the playlist is suggested.
You can use ‘MIRROR MIRROR’, ‘JUST BREATHE’, ‘NO PROBLEM’, as Fillers.
Do NOT use the same fillers in every Playlist, try to keep your fillers to shorter songs, the point is to get to the next SKZ song quickly without looking like a bot, so avoid using 4-5 minute songs, here is a playlist of fillers you can use that are under a minute provided by PROJECT STAY!
Be sure to update your playlists at least once a month preferably more frequently, switch out the fillers, change out some of the SKZ Fillers.

THREAD OF 5 STAR / S CLASS

FOCUSED PLAYLISTS

BY OUR SPOTIFY BASE!

5 STAR Spotify Playlist Example with S CLASS as the Focused Track

HOW TO STREAM?

Volume at least at 50%,use headphones or mute device do NOT mute Spotify, but adjusting the volume sometimes in Spotify is considering interacting with the app & seen as human behavior.
Make sure to turn off AUTOPLAY (Home > Settings > Playback > Off).
DO NOT LOOP OR REPEAT the songs.
DO NOT shuffle the playlist, it could play the songs back to back and be filtered out.
When sleeping or passive streaming, use queue playlists, meaning queue 3-4 shorter playlists instead of one 8-9 hour playlist.
You can use 3-5 Spotify accounts at the same time, but don’t use the same account on multiple devices. Use different browsers, use cellular data instead of Wi-Fi, etc BUT NEVER USE A VPN.
When the playlist is over, DO NOT LOOP OR REPLAY THE SAME PLAYLIST. Use a new one, try to only use each playlist once a day. Grab a variety from Fanbases and STAYs. CHECK THAT ANY PLAYLISTS YOU USE FOLLOW ALL GUIDELINES BEFORE STREAMING!

Lastly, additional ways to boost Stray Kids exposure on Spotify & help them on Chart

Share the song or album directly from the platform, using the share option, post it to SNS Platforms, text it to friends and family etc, the more engagement it gets the better!
If the title track is added to a Curated playlist, you can stream it there too. Auto-Generated or Curated Playlists with Stray Kids Songs in them boost them on the platform so if you see one PLAY ONLY THE STRAY KIDS TRACK ON THAT PLAYLIST, to ensure you don't play other songs you can 'hide' any tracks on a curated playlist that is NOT Stray Kids, THEN GO BACK TO YOUR FOCUSED PLAYLISTS!

SPOTIFY REVIEW & QUICK GUIDE

You can check the rankings of songs, Albums & Artist on Spotify's Chart HERE!

Source: Spotify FAQ- How We Count Streams