diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2a2b91056..10dcd8813 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 - New routing setup to allow lbry.tv to use the browser url bar for navigation ([#2408](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/pull/2408))
 - New audio player ([#2406](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/pull/2406))
+- Always show new suggested subscriptions ([#2541](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/pull/2451))
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/src/ui/component/subscribeSuggested/view.jsx b/src/ui/component/subscribeSuggested/view.jsx
index ebc9269e8..cb27598d2 100644
--- a/src/ui/component/subscribeSuggested/view.jsx
+++ b/src/ui/component/subscribeSuggested/view.jsx
@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
 // @flow
-import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
+import React, { Component } from 'react';
 import CategoryList from 'component/categoryList';
 import Spinner from 'component/spinner';
 
 type Props = {
-  suggested: Array<{ label: string, uri: string }>,
+  suggested: ?Array<{ label: string, uri: string }>,
   loading: boolean,
 };
 
-class SuggestedSubscriptions extends PureComponent<Props> {
+class SuggestedSubscriptions extends Component<Props> {
+  shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps: Props) {
+    const { suggested } = this.props;
+    return !suggested && !!nextProps.suggested;
+  }
+
   render() {
     const { suggested, loading } = this.props;
 
diff --git a/src/ui/redux/selectors/subscriptions.js b/src/ui/redux/selectors/subscriptions.js
index 97d39631f..2c3569a04 100644
--- a/src/ui/redux/selectors/subscriptions.js
+++ b/src/ui/redux/selectors/subscriptions.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   parseURI,
 } from 'lbry-redux';
 import { swapKeyAndValue } from 'util/swap-json';
+import { shuffleArray } from 'util/shuffleArray';
 
 // Returns the entire subscriptions state
 const selectState = state => state.subscriptions || {};
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ export const selectSuggestedChannels = createSelector(
         uri,
         label: suggestedChannels[uri],
       }))
+      .sort(shuffleArray)
       .slice(0, 5);
   }
 );
diff --git a/src/ui/util/shuffleArray.js b/src/ui/util/shuffleArray.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0cb632cad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ui/util/shuffleArray.js
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export function shuffleArray(array) {
+  return Math.round(Math.random()) - 0.5;
+}