I'm pretty sure we're going to have a very civil conversation about this.

Damn that article title hard as a b****

RED BUTTON HAS BEEN PUSHED

Spotify has the ability to juice artists? But the unemployed internet class kept telling me there was no way

You ever search a concert setlist then in the middle of the setlist is some fake ass artist to boost their streams? i see this ALOT

this is about instrumental music like jazz & those lo-fi playlists, not about industry plants or Drake stan conspiracy theories

at its basis its about reducing spotify's royalty payout

I've been seen this s*** too. Like they got some random jazz tracks made by AI, and the artists have like one song for each year in some instances

”Before the year was out, the music writer David Turner had used a***ytics data to illustrate how Spotify’s “Ambient Chill” playlist had largely been wiped of well-known artists like Brian Eno, Bibio, and Jon Hopkins, whose music was replaced by tracks from Epidemic Sound, a Swedish company that offers a subscription-based library of production music—the kind of stock material often used in the background of advertisements, TV programs, and assorted video content.”

”For years, I referred to the names that would pop up on these playlists simply as “mystery viral artists.” Such artists often had millions of streams on Spotify and pride of place on the company’s own mood-themed playlists, which were compiled by a team of in-house curators. And they often had Spotify’s verified-artist badge. But they were clearly fake. Their “labels” were frequently listed as stock-music companies like Epidemic, and their profiles included generic, possibly AI-generated imagery, often with no artist biographies or links to websites. Google searches came up empty.”

im ngl i immediately assume with these kind of articles that its just bitter fail artists mad about having to get a real job

Thank You Spotify for Stuffing Drake Down My Throat (pause)

digitalmusicnews.com/2018/07/02/spotify-drake-stuffing-throat-backlash

Thanks for admitting Drake is part of the problem and uses bots to inflate his Spotify streams. It’s no secret he’s the most botted artist in Spotify history.

Dead @ Drake groupies trynna spin it like he’s never been backed by Spotify.

”Spotify, I discovered, not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as one former employee put it, provide Spotify with “music we benefited from financially,” but also a team of employees working to seed these tracks on playlists across the platform. In doing so, they are effectively working to grow the percentage of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform.”

”The program’s name: Perfect Fit Content (PFC). The PFC program raises troubling prospects for working musicians. Some face the possibility of losing out on crucial income by having their tracks passed over for playlist placement or replaced in favor of PFC; others, who record PFC music themselves, must often give up control of certain royalty rights that, if a track becomes popular, could be highly lucrative.”

”But it also raises worrying questions for all of us who listen to music. It puts forth an image of a future in which—as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely.”

relax for one day and read the article will you

"In doing so, they are effectively working to grow the percentage of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform. The program’s name: Perfect Fit Content (PFC). The PFC program raises troubling prospects for working musicians. Some face the possibility of losing out on crucial income by having their tracks passed over for playlist placement or replaced in favor of PFC"

”According to a source close to the company, Spotify’s own internal research showed that many users were not coming to the platform to listen to specific artists or albums; they just needed something to serve as a soundtrack for their days, like a study playlist or maybe a dinner soundtrack. In the lean-back listening environment that streaming had helped champion, listeners often weren’t even aware of what song or artist they were hearing. As a result, the thinking seemed to be: Why pay full-price royalties if users were only half listening? It was likely from this reasoning that the Perfect Fit Content program was created.”

This happens on all platforms. I just thought it was on the individual doing this

post the kendrick ones. They were tossing NLU on spanish indie rock playlists on spotify

This is why Deezer is the inferior

cover hard asf too

That version had an electric guitar solo in the middle

Spoveritfy with another massive L

Imagine not using Apple Music in December of this grand year

It's also about manufacturing consent for AI music