Spotify, ghost artists

Spotify accused of pushing ghost artists into our playlists — here's what's going on
As the year winds down, Spotify, which should be going out on a high, is instead mired in controversy. After slogging through a controversial Spotify Wrapped season, Spotify is now being accused of filling playlists and recommendations with fake artists and cheap,
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 explosive report published by Harper's Magazine.
Spotify Is Allegedly Filling Out Its Playlists with "Ghost Artists" to Minimize Royalty Expenditures, Increase Profit Margins
The program, dubbed "Perfect Fit Content" has proliferated across the platform's jazz, ambient and lo-fi hip hop playlists, among others.
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 "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.
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 populated with music by "ghost artists," reducing the number of musicians the company pays royalties to.
Read this: How Spotify fills playlists with “Ghost artists” and saves on payouts
In Pelly’s investigation, she found that Spotify had been working with stock-music companies like Epidemic, which offer music that tends to be played in the background rather than music that is wholly focused on.
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 increasing its profit margins.
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 Spotify Is Filling Playlists with Ghost Artists to Minimize Royalty Costs M
Spotify uses ghost artists to "shape listening behavior" and avoid paying real ones
Spotify pads playlists with music by unknown artists, and has been accused of generating this music itself or using cheap library music to reduce the amount paid to artists. At Harpers, Liz Pelly, building on reporting by Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter,
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When you listen to Spotify, are you listening to ghost musicians?
Spotify, I discovered, not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as one former employee put it, ...
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“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 ...