Spotify accused of pushing ghost artists into our playlists — here's what's going on
After slogging through a controversial Spotify Wrapped season, Spotify is now being accused of filling playlists and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Spotify has been filling your recommendations with fake artists and music it barely pays for, according to in-depth report
The report goes into great detail, but here's the short version: rather than give individual artists some much-needed ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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When you listen to Spotify, are you listening to ghost musicians?
In order to avoid paying actual recording artists the $.003 they earn for each play of their songs, Spotify has started ...
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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 ...