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 ...

Each December, journalist Liz Pelly observes Spotify Wrapped day with a mix of horror and hope. For the past decade or so, Pelly has been writing critical essays and investigations into Spotify ...

Along the way, as journalist Liz Pelly shows in Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, the company has recast its product in several guises: quasi-legal ...

It was all the fault of Scandinavian social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sweden became a global center for music piracy largely through a perfect storm of universal and ...

Spotify has morphed from a straight-forward music library and search engine into a data-driven system built to feed you songs to match your mood and optimize your time on the platform. In this episode ...

In an excerpt from the book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, author Liz Pelly revealed that the Swedish music platform has a secretive internal programme ...

Liz Pelly (Author) 288 pages. $20 ... In a chapter on “ghost artists,” Pelly describes Spotify’s push to pad playlists with songs attributed to fake artist profiles but actually developed by ...

Explore Mood Machine by Liz Pelly—a powerful critique of Spotify’s algorithm-driven model that prioritizes passive listening over artistic creativity. The book examines the streaming giant’s ...

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 ...

The streaming service has completely changed what it means to make and listen to music. What can be done to reverse its enormous influence? There’s a playlist on Spotify, curated by the platform ...

Author Liz Pelly revealed that the Swedish music platform has a secretive internal programme. Spotify reportedly promotes ghost artists to minimise royalty payments. The internal program called ...