Spotify uses ghost artists to "shape listening behavior" and avoid paying real ones
Spotify pads playlists with music by unknown artists, and has been accused of generating this music itself or using cheap library music to reduce the amount paid to artists. At…
20 Dec 18:15 · Boing Boing
Spotify Is Allegedly Filling Out Its Playlists with "Ghost Artists" to Minimize Royalty Expenditures, Increase Profit Margins
The program, dubbed "Perfect Fit Content" has proliferated across the platform's jazz, ambient and lo-fi hip hop playlists, among others.
21 Dec 15:28 · Hypebeast
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