The New Yorker4d
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 ...
Spotify Uses "Ghost Artists" to Minimize Royalty Payouts, New Report Alleges
Spotify's use of low-cost, pseudonymous tracks in its playlists is undercutting the work of real musicians, according to an ...
Live For Live Music3d
Has Spotify Been Creating Its Own Music To Avoid Paying Royalties To Artists?
A new 'Harper's Magazine' cover story suggests Spotify has been filling playlists with its own music to avoid paying ...
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 ...
Tech Digest4d
Open AI whistleblower dies, Is Apple working on smart doorbell?
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT ...
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 ...
Yahoo6d
Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones
In an excerpt from "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" published in Harper's, author Liz Pelly reveals that the streaming platform has a secretive internal ...