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 ...

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

In this episode, Morgan is joined by music journalist and author Liz Pelly to break down how Spotify built its playlist empire, the rise of so-called “ghost artists” on the platform, and how its ...

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

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

But, as journalist Liz Pelly, has revealed, the biggest streaming platform on the market might have been supplanting real artists with craftily assembled 'fake' artists in an effort to reduce ...

GQ columnist Chris Black talks to Mood Machine author Liz Pelly, who argues that the $100 billion streaming giant's rise has been bad news for listeners as well as musicians. The Meta CEO just ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Ek, CEO and Founder of Spotify However, Spotify is not free from controversy in its AI endeavours. Music journalist Liz Pelly, in her bestselling book 'Mood Machine,' accused Spotify of ...