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Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we're sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff's favorite new music.

Tubi is pioneering a ChatGPT-native app launch, showcasing the integration of AI technology into streaming services and enhancing user engagement through innovative features.

Spotify CEO Gustav Söderström said this week that some of the company's most senior developers haven't written any code in weeks - and that a positive development. "When I speak to my most senior engineers - the best developers we have - they actually say that they haven't written a single line of code since December," he said. "They actually only generate code and supervise it."

And, make no mistake, they will be five songs you're really into right now, because that's how many of these services work-and it's not because everyone else has the same taste in music as you. For instance, any Spotify playlist that says "created for" in the header is catered to the individual user, based on their listening history. There's nothing wrong with that, necessarily-it can be nice to know you're going to hear songs you like. But there are downsides.

Spotify's "Smart Reorder" option, announced on Wednesday, is available now in the Spotify app for Premium subscribers. To try it out, open a playlist and tap the "Mix" button then "Edit." The "Smart Reorder" button should be at the bottom of the editing screen.

Spotify reached 290 million paid subscribers in its fourth quarter, up 10 percent year over year. Overall, monthly active users hit 751 million, an increase of 38 million, marking the highest number of net adds in Spotify's history. Both users' numbers were above Spotify's guidance. The company attributed the growth in monthly active users to a successful Wrapped campaign, as well as enhancements to the free tier on mobile.