Notifications from artists I did not like?

It’s my understanding that I’ll get notifications from any new songs if I favourite an artist (which would be like following them). I really hope you’re not implying that just favouriting a random song puts those artists in my notifications (never has that happened over the years of using Deezer until 2 days ago).

Here is a notification, I do have a song I favourited from this artist, but the artist themself is not favourited.

Here is another notification, I don’t see anything favourited related to it.

And then this and this I have at least 1 song favourited. But again, the artists are not.

They were all a part of a notification dump that day with other artists I did favourite.

Hey there @m4a4,

yes I checked your account and I can see that too, I am investigating with the teams and will get back to you as soon as I know more.. 

Hello there all, 

Our teams are doing some tests to improve the algorythm that sends notifications and you are in the group that receives notifications from unliked artists too. 

I will pass on your dissatisfaction! 

Well, it seems like on top of getting notifications for artists I haven’t favourited, I am not getting notifications for artists that I have. I saw that there was a problem a few weeks ago, but I would think that is sorted out by now…

This smaller artist released a song a few days ago. I have them favourited, but haven’t seen a notification. I only know about it because I happen to also follow them on social media...

Hey hey, so you don’t get notifications from ALL your favourite artists because some will be pushed in your homepage on the new releases section or playlist you’ll love section etc… 

We are testing and implementing the algorythm that pushes notifications so some of our users gets notifications from favourites songs and albums, the team will study the activity on this test and decide how to implement the algorythm!

Same problem, I’ve just got notifications from the bands that are not in my favorites. Why? How to disable it? It seems like a joke, because I don’t get notifications from the bands I’ve actually liked and added to my favs.(I described it to support in other topics from year to year with no result)

oh sh*t… I’ve just get notification from Lana Del Ray, which I obviously didn’t add to my favorites. what the purpose of notifications that recommend me artists which I even didn’t subscribe? seems like I paid more than 100 euro per year just to see forced&promoted music /: I hope to see the answer of the community manager what all this about.

Why am I still getting these stupid “not in my favourite artists” notifications? This latest one really annoys me because it’s not even close to my preferences.

An annoying kids theme??

Yes, but the second point is a huge problem. I liked a single song by BTS and I get notifs for all of their releases despite me not listening to them. And what’s worse is the third point is not 100% consistent. I want to know whenever some of my favorite smaller groups release new music, but I recently found out that a group I had favorited released a new album a week ago and I had no idea.

I think you can disable notifs by hitting “Don’t recommend this artist” but I don’t want to block a bunch of artists with a few songs I like just because I keep seeing their notifs.

I really think we should just be notified whenever an artist we favorited releases new music 100% of the time and not be notified when any artist we haven’t favorited does. This algorithm seems to overcomplicate a simple solution.

So it’s like Facebook will show you in the feed all the updates from people you say “hello” once instead of your friends only. I don’t use FB a lot, may be it already happened) but at least it will be reasonable to give a user possibility to disable that option.

That's not the issue, we want to have the opportunity to turn the algorithm off - we should be able to have that option so that we can have more tailored user experiences, not sure what's wrong with having that flexibility for Deezer's users/customers???