What is Music Match?

Music Match

What Is It?

Music Match is an algorithm-powered discovery tool that finds the songs in the ecosystem most closely matched to your specific playlists — based on mood, sonic characteristics, and transformation data.

How It Works

• Select any of your playlists as the center point
• Music Match generates a visual universe of songs from the ecosystem that are closest in mood and sonic profile to that playlist
• Each song is represented as a bubble — the size of the bubble reflects the artist's relative popularity
• You can request 25, 50, 75 or more recommendations at a time
• Any song you like can be added directly to your Curation Tray from the Music Match view

The Algorithm — How Songs Are Matched

Music Match uses a 4-quadrant mood and transformation model:

• Instead of relying on a single mood tag, the algorithm determines where a song sits across four mood quadrants
• It then finds your playlist's position in that same quadrant space
• Songs closest to your playlist's quadrant position are surfaced as recommendations
• This means matches are based on sonic DNA, not just genre labels

What Music Match Earns You

• Any placements or proposals made through Music Match count toward your Discovery Max Weekly Pay.
• Music Match is essentially a smarter, more targeted way to find songs for the same Discovery earnings pool
• Think of it as the universe view of Discovery — same revenue lane, different (and more precise) way of finding songs

Tips

• Use Music Match when you want highly targeted recommendations rather than browsing the full promotion pool
• Larger bubbles = more popular artists — useful if you want to add well-known names to your playlist
• All playlists with at least 1 follower will appear in Music Match starting with the 1.9 release