How to Get & Save Spotify New Music Friday on Desktop/Mobile

New Music Friday is a feature on Spotify that contains a list of playlists to showcase the newly released music from different countries and regions. These playlists are updated every Friday bringing fresh tracks from both established and emerging talented artists. This feature serves as the leading destination for listeners to discover new music and it’s gained over 3.5 million followers in the U.S. and 8 million globally.

In 2020, Spotify revamped this feature with new cover art and visual identity. It also got updated with the must-hear playlist brand and New York and Los Angeles billboards to attract more listeners through social media.

In this passage, I’m going to show you how to get Spotify New Music Friday feature and download songs from Spotify New Music Friday playlists.

Part 1. How to Find New Music Friday Playlist on Spotify

Before checking out this feature, make sure that you already had signed up for a Spotify account. After you log into your account, you can find Spotify New Music Friday playlists easily by using the Search tool.

Using Search to get the New Music Friday playlist on the Spotify desktop app:

1. Launch the Spotify desktop app.

2. To access the Search tool, select Search in the side menu.

3. Click on the Search filed and type "New Music Friday". Then you see the New Music Friday playlist under Top result.

Tips: You must know the playlist is available on a global scale, so you may also access different version of New Music Friday for other countries, for example New Music Friday UK, Deutschland, France, Latin and more. To access them, choose the Playlists tab to access them by using this filter.

4. Pick the New Music Friday you want and you can now play the songs it contains.

Using Search to get the New Music Friday playlist on the Spotify mobile app:

1. Open the Spotify mobile app.

2. Head to Search.

3. Tap the Search field and open the keyboard to type "New Music Friday".

4. Pick the New Music Friday playlist you want for different countries. You access all the music it contains.

Part 2. How to Save Spotify New Music Friday Playlists [Version] to Your Library

To save the New Music Friday to your library you just need to select the Like button for it. Or if you wish to save the songs it contains, you can also click the Like button on the right.

Adding the New Music Friday playlist to your library on desktop:

1. When you are viewing the playlist's profile, click the Heart icon to make it green.

2. Find that playlist on the Playlist section in the side menu.

Adding the New Music Friday playlist to your library on mobile:

1. Tap on the Heart icon under the playlist's profile. Spotify will add it to your library immediately.

2. Head to Your Library to find it in the list. So next time you have the direct access to that playlist and if want to discover your love in it.

Most playlists update regularly to stay fresh, such as the New Music Friday created by Spotify. So you may want to save the current version or any particular version of that playlist with the songs it contains. You won't be able to do that on Spotify, but you can create your own playlist and add all the tracks to that. Here's how:

Adding the New Music Friday playlist to another playlist on desktop:

1. For starters you'll need to decide which playlist to choose to add the New Music Friday to. Or you can create a new playlist by right-clicking on the blank area of the Playlist section > Create playlist. A name of that playlist is required.

2. Repeat some steps to select the New Music Friday playlist.

3. Click the More button > Add to other playlist. Find and select an existing playlist.

4. The songs it contains currently are added to that playlist in your library.

Adding the New Music Friday playlist to another playlist on mobile:

1. To save the New Music Friday playlist to your library, ensure to have a playlist for it in your library. Or creating a new playlist by using Your Library > Add + at the top-right > Playlist. Then name your playlist and tap Create to continue.

2. Now go to the New Friday playlist you wish to save to your library.

3. Tap the More button > Add to other playlist. Choose any of your own playlists as a destination.

4. All the tracks are added to the selected playlist. Return to Your Library to check it.

Part 3. FAQs about New Music Friday Playlist on Spotify

What time does Spotify update New Music Friday?

New Music Friday playlists will be updated in bulk at the same time. Normally the new music is available at 00:00 ET, so there’ll be a time lag for users from different time zones.

Why does the new music release on Friday?

The answer can be summed up with three key factors: chart calculation, streaming platforms strategies and tradition.

Billboard starts to tracks the amount of streaming and sale of songs from Friday to Thursday. So if a song or album releases on Friday, it will be tracked for a whole week in a weekly circle which will make is more possible to pop up on the chart.

The second factor, streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify release songs on Friday. Obviously, artists don’t want to miss the chance to get on the newly released playlist on big platforms, so usually they’ll release the new album on Friday.

The last one sounds like a cliché, but the music industry seems to have come to an agreement to put the release day on Friday. The Global Release Day (also known as New Music Fridays) is set to be the international day for releasing new singles and albums. There might be some artists who want to make some surprises for their listeners to release new songs earlier or later than Friday, but in general people will take Friday as the day of releasing new songs.

Bonus Tip: How to Download & Keep New Music Friday without Premium

Since the New Music Friday will get updated every Friday, so if you'll want to download that for offline play. To download those songs an active Premium subscription is required. If you are using the free tier of Spotify, you can choose to pick a third-party tool instead. From here you can pick ViWizard Spotify Music Converter to make a difference. For Premium, please also consider to keep your Spotify playlists forever with that.

ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is designed to convert and remove DRM from Spotify song files into 6 different formats like MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC. All the original quality of the song will be kept after converting at 5X faster speed. In addition to New Music Friday, all Spotify playlists can be downloaded for easy access at any time.

 

1Upload Spotify New Music Friday Songs to ViWizard

Open ViWizard software and the Spotify will be launched simultaneously. Directly drag and drop tracks from New Music Friday playlist into the ViWizard interface.

2 Set Up Output Parameters

After adding music tracks from Spotify to ViWizard, you can choose the output audio format. There're six options including MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV and FLAC. And then you can adjust the audio quality by selecting the output channel, bit rate, and sample rate.

3 Start the Conversion

Once all the setting is finished, click the "Convert" button to start loading Spotify music tracks. After the conversion, all the files will be saved to your specified folder. You could browse all the converted songs by clicking "Converted" and navigate to the output folder.

4Play Spotify New Music Friday Songs without Premium

After downloaded all the Spotify audio files from New Music Friday, you can play these songs anywhere without Spotify Premium. Also you don't have to worry about the songs get lost due to the playlist update.