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 ...
In Pelly’s investigation, she found that Spotify had been working with stock-music companies like Epidemic, which offer music ...
Spotify's use of low-cost, pseudonymous tracks in its playlists is undercutting the work of real musicians, according to an ...
A new 'Harper's Magazine' cover story suggests Spotify has been filling playlists with its own music to avoid paying ...
According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying its piddling ...
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT ...
The report goes into great detail, but here's the short version: rather than give individual artists some much-needed ...
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 ...
After slogging through a controversial Spotify Wrapped season, Spotify is now being accused of filling playlists and ...
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly Since around 2017, Perry has been hearing rumors that 'Stock music by ghost artists is filling up popular playlists on Spotify.' Official Spotify playlists ...