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“What I uncovered was an elaborate internal program”: Is Spotify creating fake artists to flood its editorial playlists?
But, as journalist Liz Pelly, has revealed, the biggest streaming platform on the market might have been supplanting real ...
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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
Liz Pelly’s new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist,” is a comprehensive look at how the company’s dominance has profoundly changed the way we ...
Read this: How Spotify fills playlists with “Ghost artists” and saves on payouts
In Pelly’s investigation, she found that Spotify had been working with stock-music companies like Epidemic, which offer music ...
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We’ve Been Hearing About Spotify ‘Ghost Artists’ for Years — Now There’s an Entire Book Dedicated to the Subject
Author Liz Pelly penned a preview of that book, entitled Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect ...
Spotify accused of pushing ghost artists into our playlists — here's what's going on
As the year winds down, Spotify, which should be going out on a high, is instead mired in controversy. After slogging through ...
Spotify accused of using ghost artists to minimise royalty payments
Spotify is allegedly using "ghost artists" to minimise royalty payments, according to a new report investigating how it is ...
Futurism on MSN6d
Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones
According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying its piddling ...
Spotify has been filling your recommendations with fake artists and music it barely pays for, according to in-depth report
The report goes into great detail, but here's the short version: rather than give individual artists some much-needed ...
Boing Boing on MSN4d
When you listen to Spotify, are you listening to ghost musicians?
Spotify, I discovered, not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as one former employee put it, ...
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Spotify's algorithmic playlists: Are artists losing out?
Spotify's influence on the music market is often criticized for working against artists. Beyond the issue of low fees for ...
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Journalist Liz Pelly explores Spotify’s ‘Perfect Fit Content’
US-based journalist Liz Pelly has been one of Spotify’s key critics in the media, and her new book crystallises that.