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 ...

Spotify officially claims it was started because its founders ‘love music and piracy was killing it’. But a new book argues ...

In her book “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist,” author Liz Pelly discusses what Spotify has done to the music industry. Pelly visited the University of ...

Primavera Pro has revealed its full programme, with the likes of writer Liz Pelly among the experts joining the talks and panels at the industry event. Professionals from across the music world will ...

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 ...

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Music journalist Liz Pelly calls this phenomenon ‘selling lean-back listening’. “There were way more listening hours using music as a background experience—people who wanted to lean back ...

We are no longer fans. Now we’ve outsourced our demos of devotion; outsourced them to music streaming steamroller Spotify, the subject of Liz Pelly’s virtuosic new book Mood Machine ...

And that has big implications for how artists get paid. Liz Pelly, Author, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" Streaming services don't pay per stream ...

For millions of people, the soundtrack of their lives is curated by Spotify. The streaming giant has made it easier than ever to listen to music, but journalist Liz Pelly argues that it’s also ...

Of the many galling facts in Mood Machine, Liz Pelly’s forensic account of how Spotify upended the music industry, most exasperating is that the Swedish company didn’t initially set out to be a music ...