Author Liz Pelly on Spotify Book, Ghost Artists and Speaking Up for Indie Musicians
Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting and cultural criticism, focuses on how Spotify has reshaped how we listen to ...
In ‘Mood Machine,’ BU grad Liz Pelly examines the hidden costs of Spotify’s music empire
Stories about Spotify’s insidious effect on the livelihood of musicians aren't new. Pelly takes that criticism further, ...
‘It's About How Power Works': Author Liz Pelly on Her New Spotify Book, ‘Mood Machine'
The book, an investigation into the internal practices and cultural effects of the streaming giant, is "an entryway into a ...
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“Mood Machine” probes the mysteries of the Spotify playlist
In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the ...
How Spotify is ruining music
The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist By Liz Pelly Published by One Signal. 274 pp. £22 FROM the ...
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We’ve Been Hearing About Spotify ‘Ghost Artists’ for Years — Now There’s an Entire Book Dedicated to the Subject
We’ve been hearing about Spotify “ghost artists” for years. Now, there’s an entire book dedicated to the subject – exploring, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Spotify’s origins and influence on music
Liz Pelly interviewed over 100 industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, to look at how music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Her new book Mood ...
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 that tends to be played in the background rather than music that is wholly ...
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Is Spotify creating fake artists to flood its editorial playlists?
In the course of her extensive investigation, Liz Pelly spoke to various former Spotify curators and staff, many of which recalled that the internal pressure to add this type of 'PFC' content grew ...