The music industry repeats its history

The Ghosts in the Machine (of Spotify). Via honest-broker.com.

Spotify, I discovered, not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as one former employee put it, provide Spotify with “music we benefited from financially,” but also a team of employees working to seed these tracks on playlists across the platform. In doing so, they are effectively working to grow the percentage of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform. The program’s name: Perfect Fit Content (PFC).

Relevant: Mood Machine.

Relevant 2: Payola.

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