BackPew Music

General streaming platforms offer enormous catalogues, but listeners seeking Christian music often have to depend on prior knowledge, broad search terms, or playlists that represent only a narrow part of the landscape.

The challenge was to support multiple genres and a growing artist list without overwhelming visitors, while keeping discovery immediate for both established and unfamiliar artists.

The finished interface gives each selected artist a prominent playback area and a direct Spotify route, then supports exploration through search, genre filters, and a responsive grid of artist cards.

Selecting an artist updates the featured listening experience without forcing a new page journey. This keeps exploration quick while Spotify embeds provide familiar playback controls and track information.

The catalogue recognises that many Christian artists work across overlapping sounds. Cards can carry more than one genre, while the filters provide quick entry points for Worship, Gospel, Hip-hop, R&B, Afro, and Dancehall listeners.

Search and category filtering work together so users can browse broadly or move directly toward a known artist or sound.

The experience supports several overlapping listening journeys:

• Christians looking for focused music discovery
• Listeners moving between worship, gospel, hip-hop, R&B, Afro, and Dancehall
• Users who want artist-led discovery without unrelated catalogue noise
• Church communities, young adults, and faith-centred music listeners

The current product includes:

• Featured Christian artist experience
• Spotify-powered artist and track playback
• Searchable artist catalogue
• Genre filters for Hip-hop, R&B, Afro, Dancehall, Worship, and Gospel
• Responsive artist cards
• Selected-artist state management
• Direct Spotify artist links
• Guest-mode browsing
• Responsive dark and light presentation

The layout adapts its featured player, filters, search controls, and artist cards across screen sizes while preserving readable track information and comfortable touch targets.

The visual system uses strong contrast, restrained accent colour, and consistent card patterns so the music and artist imagery remain the focus.

Future development could introduce listener accounts, favourites, saved artists, curated playlists, personalised recommendations, deeper artist profiles, recently played history, editorial collections, and closer integration with the wider BackPew product ecosystem.