2024-12-21
‼️NEW: Liz Pelly reveals Spotify's secret exploitation model Perfect Fit Content: thousands of songs created by underpaid, anonymous subcontractor musicians through shady production houses, prioritized by Spotify as the royalties improved its margins. [image]
Harper's
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...
Spotify's rigged system devalues music and the artists that create it, and it needs to end. This “Perfect Fit Content” exists to replace human artists with anonymized, automated noise. Read the full article by @lizpelly here: https://harpers.org/...
Harper's
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...
2023-10-26
Artists have solutions to fix streaming but Spotify isn't listening. Instead they propose changes that will enrich the top of the pyramid even more, and make it even more impossible for working musicians to benefit from streaming. [image]
Music Business Worldwide
Sources: Spotify plans major changes to its royalty model in Q1 2024, including a threshold of minimum annual streams before a track starts generating royalties
This is huge news - and it's been a long time coming. MBW has confirmed that Spotify is planning to make significant changes …