Getting a recommendation for a track you might like is difficult when the world is saturated with several streaming platforms. To this end, a new feature, Top Songs to Artist Pages, is being introduced.

It hopes to change how we find artists and songs that suit our preferences. This post will quickly introduce this feature as a unique new addition to music. This will explain why it greatly improves music discovery.

What is the top song's carousel?

The Top Songs Carousel is a new addition to an artist's top songs list view. It effectively allows fans to glance through an artist’s top songs at a glance. Traditional song lists have been replaced with a carousel. It includes the album art or song image, title, and play button. 

This format greatly enhances usability. Users can quickly skim through an artist’s best pieces. They instantly access their most popular songs without diving into endless lists of albums or songs. The horizontal scrolling is particularly helpful for mobile users, providing touch-friendly navigation, 

Primary Sections of the Most Popular Songs Carousel

The Top Songs Carousel is designed with several key features. It aims to enhance usability and provide a comprehensive overview of an artist's popular works:

Display of Four Songs Per Load (with Pagination)

It organizes four songs in a single instance on the carousel and provides a neat and clean-looking list. To allow users to get exposed to more of such an artist’s popular songs, the carousel supports pagination. 

This means that once more than five or six songs are at one particular artist, the carousel will be split into “sections.” This pagination repeats up to 20 songs in five pages.

Play All" Button 

Top Songs to Artist Pages include the play-all button to enable break-less listening. This button allows a user to play all the songs shown inside the carousel from top to bottom.

It ranges up to the maximum capacity of 20 songs. This is a good feature for someone who desires the program to play the artist’s hits without choosing them individually.

Option to View the Full List of Top Songs

Although it makes listening to a choice of the best songs more convenient, the carousel also has a button that will show all the best songs. A “View All” or any other relevant link close to the carousel often executes this. 

This button leads to another page or tab in the application. The user can see the artist’s favorite songs in their playlist. 

User Interface Changes

The most notable change is the new Top Songs Carousel. The artist page layout progressed from the previously seen list. This reorders the content to prioritize top tracks. It puts them at the top of the page with attractive cards with album art and direct play buttons. 

This design also matches some of our existing carousels on the platform. It includes ‘Quick Picks,’ ‘Trending,’ and ‘Long Listens.’ Thus, it shares a horizontal scroll, card-based structure, clear heading, and ‘View All’ button. This consistency also helps users immediately know how to engage with the Top Songs Carousel. This makes it a natural way to identify an artist’s popular tunes.

How to get to the Top Songs Carousel

Music app for both Android and iOS:

Open YouTube Music.

Search for an artist.

Go to their artist page.

You must scroll down to the page to see the “Top Songs” at the bottom as a carousel.

Advantages of Running a Carousel of Top Songs

The Top Songs Carousel offers several key advantages for both music discovery and user experience within the YouTube Music app:

Enhanced Music Discovery for New and Existing Artists

For New Artists: Carousel allows new artists to feature their most beloved tracks on the site. This will increase their visibility among users and, therefore, their chances of being listened to. It also helps those interested in reading sample pieces from potential favorites conclude.

For Existing Artists: For signed performers with many songs, the carousel presents the tracklist with only those options that can be considered favorites. Thus, it helps occasional listeners or fans of a new generation find familiar tracks. It also provides a user-friendly environment for those reading the comic strip.

Improved Browsing Experience with Quick Access to Top Tracks

Streamlined Navigation: Navigating different sections on the artist’s page becomes far more convenient. The most important tracks are offered right on the main view, without having to scroll through albums or other content.

Faster Discovery: With traditional methods, users have to scroll down the page or turn the magazine pages to get a list of songs. It takes a lot more time to discover an artist's most popular songs.

Visually Engaging Presentation: Precisely, cutter photos and the selection of the horizontal presentation that imitates animation are less boring than the list or the grid.

Improved Mobile Usability: The carousel is also greatly optimized for mobile platforms. It enables users to browse and find music with as much ease on a small screen as they would on a desktop.

The Climax

The YouTube Music app's Top Songs to Artist Pages feature is highly beneficial. It allows users to list an artist’s most popular songs and display them cleanly, visually appealingly, and instrumentally. 

The heavy emphasis on the users means that YouTube Music already has plans to evolve. It creates better methods for people to connect with music.

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