Craft Your Unique Birthday Symphony with ChatGPT and Spotify: A Dutch Example

Are you on the hunt for an extraordinary way to commemorate a milestone birthday? How about a captivating, personalized playlist featuring the number one song from each year of your life? With OpenAI's ChatGPT and Spotify, you can craft a playlist that takes you on an exciting musical journey from the year you were born right up to the present day. In this blog post, we'll guide you through the process of creating your own one-of-a-kind birthday playlist, using the example of someone born in the Netherlands in the last week of 1973.

What You'll Need

To create your personalized playlist, you'll need to activate the following ChatGPT plugins:

• Web Pilot: This plugin allows ChatGPT to visit web pages and extract specific information. We'll use this to find the number one song from each year of your life.
• PlaylistAI: This plugin allows ChatGPT to create a Spotify playlist from a list of song names. Once we've compiled our list of songs, we'll use this to create your playlist.

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Choose Your Chart

First, decide which music chart you want to use. For a Dutch playlist, you might choose the Dutch Top 40, which ranks the top 40 songs in the Netherlands each week.

Step 2: Find the Number One Song for Each Year

Next, use the Web Pilot plugin to visit the webpage for the Dutch Top 40 for each year of your life. For example, if you were born in 1973 and you're creating a playlist for your 50th birthday in 2023, you would visit the webpage for the chart for each year from 1974 to 2023.

Ask ChatGPT to extract the number one song for each year. To do this, you'll need to provide the URL for the chart for each year, and set the 'user_has_request' parameter to 'true'. ChatGPT will then visit each webpage and extract the information for you.

Here's an example of how you might do this:

User: I was born on December 29, 1973. For my 50th birthday, I want to create a special playlist with each song that was number 1 in the Dutch Top 40 on my birthday. You can find this at https://www.top40hitdossier.nl/top40/1989/week-52 (where 1989 is replaced by the year and week-52 sometimes needs to be week-53). Create this playlist and make the last song "Happy Birthday" by Stevie Wonder. Create this playlist on Spotify.

Step 3: Create Your Playlist

Once you've compiled your list of songs, it's time to create your playlist. Use the PlaylistAI plugin to do this. You'll need to provide a comma-separated list of song and artist names in the format '<song name> - <artist name>', and a suggested title for the playlist.

ChatGPT will then create a Spotify playlist with your chosen songs. If the plugin returns a 429 status code, this means you need to pay to continue using the plugin. Follow the provided instructions to do this.

With the example prompt used above ChatGPT will create the playlist for you, but the code would be:

Assistant to=PlaylistAI.checkGET: 

{

 "songNames": "Ding-A-Dong - Teach-In, Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen, Daddy Cool - Boney M., Mull Of Kintyre - Wings, Y.M.C.A. - Village People, Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd, Woman In Love - Barbra Streisand, Human Nature - Michael Jackson, DoThey Know It's Christmas - Band Aid, Last Christmas - Wham!, The Final Countdown - Europe, Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle, Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry, Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor, Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice, Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen, I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston, Mr. Blobby - Mr. Blobby, Think Twice - Celine Dion, Earth Song - Michael Jackson, Killing Me Softly - The Fugees, Barbie Girl - Aqua, Believe - Cher, I Have A Dream - Westlife, Can't Fight The Moonlight - LeAnn Rimes, Somethin' Stupid - Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman, Lose Yourself - Eminem, Mad World - Michael Andrews & Gary Jules, Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid 20, Hung Up - Madonna, Patience - Take That, Apologize - Timbaland ft. OneRepublic, Hallelujah - Alexandra Burke, Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine, When We Collide - Matt Cardle, Someone Like You - Adele, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Justice Collective, Happy - Pharrell Williams, Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars, Love Yourself - Justin Bieber, Rockabye - Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie, Perfect - Ed Sheeran, Sweet But Psycho - Ava Max, All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey, Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran & Elton John, Ladada (Mon Dernier Mot) - Claude, Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder",

 "title": "50 Jaar Nummer 1 Hits"

}

Step 4: Enjoy Your Playlist

Finally, it's time to enjoy your personalized birthday playlist! Listen to it on your birthday to take a musical journey through your life, or share it with friends and family to let them join in the celebration. You can find the playlist created for our Dutch example here.

Conclusion

Creating a personalized birthday playlist with ChatGPT and Spotify is a fun and unique way to celebrate your birthday. It's also a great way to reflect on the music that has soundtracked your life so far. So why not give it a try for your next birthday? With ChatGPT and Spotify, the soundtrack to your life is just a few clicks away.