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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 ...

Take Spotify, as brilliantly documented in Liz Pelly’s book “The Mood Machine.” Many millennials have never known a different way of consuming music. But behind their sleek interfaces ...

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 ...