The Swedish tech giant has rigged the music industry against artists, mined listeners for data, and made music boring for ...

It was all the fault of Scandinavian social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sweden became a global ...

Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads ...

At Primavera Sound's international meeting point for the music industry, we find out why artists and labels are going back to ...

In Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, Liz Pelly writes about Spotify from multiple angles: from the perspective of artistes, record labels, Spotify execs ...

Perhaps the move to streaming—the subject of Liz Pelly’s new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist—makes that question moot. If Pelly is right that ...

In Mood Machine, music journalist Liz Pelly argues this is rewriting history. In fact, she points out, Spotify founder Daniel Ek initially patented a platform around 2006, for circulating “any kind of ...

Spotify has all the world’s music… in theory. But its algorithms decide many things. Like other technology platforms, Spotify makes decisions to make more money. And this affects the music we listen ...

In Mood Machine, music journalist Liz Pelly argues this is rewriting history. In fact, she points out, Spotify founder Daniel Ek initially patented a platform around 2006, for circulating “any ...

Spotify was recently shown to be producing AI-generated playlists as a means of creating “music we benefited from financially” by Liz Pelly in her book “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and ...