Media content selected from listening history of social connections

A media system comprising at least one processing device and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing data instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the media system to:

• receive a friends list of a first user from a social media system, the friends list comprising a plurality of first user connections who have elected to be discoverable via a social connection privacy setting;
• determine a user subgroup from the friends list that includes users of the media system;
• automatically add the user subgroup as followed users of the first user in the media system;
• determine a first user taste profile;
• determine user taste profiles for the followed users, the user taste profiles being generated based at least in part on a listening history of the respective followed user;
• compare the first user taste profile with the user taste profiles of the followed users to generate similarity scores representing how similar the first user taste profile is to the user taste profiles of the followed users;
• select a subset of followed users based on the similarity scores;
• identify a plurality of media content items from listening histories of the subset of followed users;
• and
• generate a queue of media content items selected from the plurality of media content items.

A method of generating a queue of media content items on a media delivery system from social connections, for playback to a first user using a user device, the method comprising:

• determining a first user taste profile;
• receiving a friends list of the first user from a social media system, the friends list comprising a plurality of first user connections who have elected to be discoverable via a social connection privacy setting;
• determining a user subgroup from the friends list that includes users of the media delivery system;
• automatically adding the user subgroup as followed users of the first user in the media delivery system;
• determining a followed user subgroup of the followed users that includes the followed users who have elected to share their listening histories;
• determining user taste profiles for the followed user subgroup, the user taste profiles being generated based at least in part on a listening history of the respective followed user;
• comparing the first user taste profile with the user taste profiles of the followed user subgroup to generate similarity scores representing how similar the first user taste profile is to the user taste profiles of the followed users in the followed user subgroup;
• selecting a subset of followed users based on the similarity scores;
• identifying a plurality of media content items from the listening histories of the subset of followed users;
• and
• generating the queue of media content items selected from the plurality of media content items.