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Spotify Is Allegedly Filling Out Its Playlists with "Ghost Artists" to Minimize Royalty Expenditures, Increase Profit Margins
Since 2017, these companies have been creating music called “Perfect Fit Content” (or PFC for short) that’s shared through hundreds of “artist profiles,” making these PFC tracks cheaper ...
Futurism on MSN6d
Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones
According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying its piddling ...
Music Ally7d
Journalist Liz Pelly explores Spotify’s ‘Perfect Fit Content’
US-based journalist Liz Pelly has been one of Spotify’s key critics in the media, and her new book crystallises that.
MusicRadar on MSN7d
“What I uncovered was an elaborate internal program”: Is Spotify creating fake artists to flood its editorial playlists?
But, as journalist Liz Pelly, has revealed, the biggest streaming platform on the market might have been supplanting real ...
Spotify has been filling your recommendations with fake artists and music it barely pays for, according to in-depth report
The report goes into great detail, but here's the short version: rather than give individual artists some much-needed ...
The Fader7d
Report: Spotify is populating its playlists with “ghost artists”
A Harper's Magazine report alleges that some of Spotify's biggest ambient, classical, jazz, and lo-fi-hip-hop playlists are ...
Spotify accused of using ghost artists to minimise royalty payments
Spotify is allegedly using "ghost artists" to minimise royalty payments, according to a new report investigating how it is ...
Spotify Uses "Ghost Artists" to Minimize Royalty Payouts, New Report Alleges
Spotify's use of low-cost, pseudonymous tracks in its playlists is undercutting the work of real musicians, according to an ...
New Report Alleges Spotify Is Filling Playlists with Ghost Artists to Minimize Royalty Costs
The use of a PFC program (Perfect Fit Content) allows the company to pay out less in streaming royalties. New Report Alleges ...
Metro3d
Death in Paradise fans hail new lead star ‘a perfect fit’ after Christmas special
AndrewRCushing added: ‘I love this time of year, not because it’s Christmas but Death in Paradise is back and Don Gilét is a perfect fit.’ Don Gilet is the new lead star and fans have ...