I haven’t seen the Friday releases for quite some time. But from what I know, I agree with you. I had the same experience, from all the songs maybe 1 or 2 are music I would listen to.

To top it off, I’ve enabled the notifications about new releases from artists I follow, Deezer misses like 50% of them. Just skips the releases randomly. Like how hard can it be to feed us the new stuff from artists we’ve explicitly followed?

Hi @PotatoOverlord, thank you for sharing your feedback.

I have forwarded it to our development team.

Your input is highly valued, and we appreciate your contribution.

This has been a problem for years, and every time I’ve looked at the forum to see if there’s been any progress, I find it’s all small threads with a couple of responses, and then someone saying it’s been forwarded to the development team. I’m beginning to think this is tracked internally as lots of separate problems that only affect a couple of people, and fixing it is therefore deprioritised, instead of aggregating the separate reports into a single widespread issue that needs to be dealt with.

Most of the songs I see that shouldn’t be there have the correct artist assigned (although sometimes they don’t), so it’s not solely a data entry issue. Without having seen Deezer’s internal source code, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that whatever system’s generating the playlists is comparing/querying artists by name, instead of by unique ID, and that seems like something that should be trivial to fix once someone’s actually told to do so.

My Friday New Releases smart playlist has not updated this week, even though my favorite artists have released new music. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

Not me. I have 8 new songs from different artists in my Friday releases.

On the next day, mine was updated too. Better late than never.