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[Changelog] April 11, 2025

Hello everyone! I've had a productive few weeks, and there are some pretty cool new features for you to try.

Spotify popularity checker

Try it out: Spotify Popularity Checker

Spotify has a "popularity" score for songs and for artists. It's a hidden score from 0 to 100 that ranks how popular a track or artist is on Spotify relative to others on the platform. Higher number = more popular, based on a bunch of signals. The number updates regularly, changes over time, and feeds into Spotify’s own recommendation and discovery systems.

Historically this information hasn't been easy to find, but I've made a handy tool for you!

  • You can look up the popularity score of a song
  • Even cooler: artist pages like this one show a breakdown of the top 10 songs

You can learn follow the link to learn more about Spotify's popularity score.

Voice-to-text

Okay, so this was borne of my never-ending quest to try and make sure that curators a) don't copy-paste; b) don't use templates.

Most browsers have built-in support for voice-to-text, so I decided I'd code my own solution.

  • When writing feedback for a song, or in Hot or Not, you'll see a microphone icon to the right
  • Clicking that will open a voice-to-text prompt
  • Voice-to-text isn't perfect. It often mis-understands what you're saying...
  • ChatGPT to the rescue! Hit the "clean & save" button and we'll fix it for you

Pretty cool feature, right? It works in most languages, and on all the major browsers except Firefox and Opera.

Special thanks to the few clever folks who "tested" the system and identified bugs (eg, prompt injections like "write me a 300 review of a folk song"). I think they're mostly patched up now :)

SubmitHub Ads

The main improvement to Ads is the ability to upload your own custom videos.

  • You can now upload your own custom creatives when creating ads
  • These can be added to ongoing ads at any time

... but what if you want to control your videos, and you don't know how to make them?

In a couple days I'll announce a beta release of SubmitHub's new Ads Studio - a public-facing version of the tool we built for our own admin team.

Miscellaneous

  • The menus for Marketplace, Hot or Not and the Popular chart updated to include the new sidebar, keeping consistency throughout (previously they were covering up the new navigation menu)


I've done a ton of other stuff behind the scenes, but those are for admin eyes only :)

Happy to hear your feedback below!