2024-12-21
Does this vindicate Adorno? Extraordinary article about how Spotify creates ‘tracks by cheap, fake artists’ to populate its playlists, to avoid royalties. Made possible by how most people consume music as ambient sound curated by pre-packaged playlists. https://harpers.org/...
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How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake...