2024-12-21
For the 2 or 3 people left not convinced that Daniel Ek & Spotify are the dark evil within music (& this in an industry that contains radio & label bosses, the epitome of malevolent forces), from the indefatigable Liz Pelly. — harpers.org/archive/2025...
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...
2022-01-27
As if Spotify, a morals-free zone at the best of times, for whom music is the widget-du-jour, would choose a musician with solid-but-not-spectacular-following over the continuing and expanding shitshow that is MRA/anti-vax/proto-fascist talking heads. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after he gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines