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Here's the music Snap's secretive CEO has been listening to ahead of his big IPO

Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snapchat's parent company, Snap Inc., is an intensely private person.

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As his company prepares for a potentially blockbuster initial public offering, the 26-year-old's public profile is almost nonexistent. He rarely gives interviews, never tweets, and doesn't have a public Facebook account. Even his Snapchat account isn't widely known outside of his inner circle.

Curiously, though, Spiegel chooses to regularly share his taste in music through Hype Machine, an app that lets you share tracks you're listening to from places like SoundCloud and Spotify.

We recently perused Spiegel's public Hype Machine account to see which tunes he's listening to ahead of Snap's big IPO. The Los Angeles native mainly likes dance pop, but he occasionally sprinkles in other genres with the likes of Bob Dylan.

On Wednesday, he listened to Louis the Child's "Love Is Alive," which Billboard described as a "sweetly empowering" dance pop track from LA producer Elohim. He also "loved" the song "Phones Down" by Lost Kings, a moody track with the chorus "Why don't you put that f---ing phone down / Darling, so we can be alone now."

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The song he's most "obsessed" with — a metric Hype Machine uses for tracks played most frequently by an account — happens to be " rel="noFollow"Yea, Babe, No Way" by LANY, a youthful pop band from LA.

Spiegel's love for music has been well documented over the years — he even considered running a music label within Snap at one point. Snap was also the main sponsor for last year's Santa Monica Pier Twilight concerts.

You can peruse Spiegel's full listening history on his Hype Machine account. Snap cofounder Bobby Murphy also uses the service, but he doesn't share tracks as regularly.

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