An increasing portion of tracks on Spotify playlists are ... commissioned tracks based on templates that match trending playlists. According to Pelly, the artists she interviewed receive a one ...

Spotify Iceberg, created via Icebergify, visually categorizes users' top 50 artists into an iceberg graphic based on listening trends and artist popularity, showcasing the depth of their music taste.

As 2024 comes to a close, everyday music lovers and celebrities alike get excited to discover who their top artist of the year was on Spotify Wrapped — and the stars are spilling all their music ...

According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying its piddling royalties to real artists. In an excerpt from "Mood Machine: The Rise of ...

Spotify is now being accused of filling playlists and recommendations with fake artists and cheap, generic music in a new report from Harper's magazine. According to the report, a program called ...

Spotify is reportedly pushing "ghost artists" into many playlists Ghost artists are similar to muzak: it's music to be in the background Some employees have refused to take part Who makes the ...

The next time you fire up Spotify, you may hear an artist you’ve never listened to before. A new book alleges that, in some cases, that’s because the artist doesn’t exist and may be part of an ...

Spotify is using “ghost artists” to minimise royalty payments, according to a new report. Various figures and reports have been closely observing Spotify for a series of months in an effort to unveil ...

Spotify — who pays artists between $0.003 and $0.005 every time a track is streamed on its platform — has allegedly been filling out its playlists with tracks from “ghost artists” to ...

According to a detailed new report from Liz Pelly for Harper’s Magazine, Spotify is supplementing playlists with “ghost artists” as a means of decreasing the amount of royalties to pay and increasing ...

A detailed new report in Harper’s Magazine has alleged that Spotify is seeding some of its biggest playlists with what are known as “ghost artists,” a small group of musicians who create ...