Author Liz Pelly on Spotify Book, Ghost Artists and Indie Musicians
Jan 7, 2025 · In music journalist Liz Pelly’s new book, she writes about how Spotify and the streaming business has reshaped how we listen to music, and she points out some of the questionable behavior...
Spotify’s playlists have altered the music industry ... - The Economist
3 days ago · By Liz Pelly. Atria; 288 pages; $28.99. Hodder & Stoughton; £22. A few years after Spotify’s founding in 2006, executives commissioned a study. It revealed that many listeners were using the ...
Liz Pelly Critiques Spotify in Her New Book, 'Mood Machine'
Jan 6, 2025 · Each December, journalist Liz Pelly observes Spotify Wrapped day with a mix of horror and hope. For the past decade or so, Pelly has been writing critical essays and investigations into...
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly - harpers.org
A Spotify spokesperson, in turn, told the music press that these reports were “categorically untrue, full stop”: the company was not creating its own fake-artist tracks. But while Spotify may not have created them, it stopped short of denying that it had added them to its playlists.
"Mood Machine" tunes into Spotify's playlist algorithm
Jan 7, 2025 · In her new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist,” music journalist Liz Pelly takes a look at what goes into the Spotify algorithm and how it has ...
What Spotify took from us by giving us everything - The Verge
Jan 16, 2025 · Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine is an investigation of what it means to make music for playlists. ... Pelly is right that Spotify’s solution to fraud — demonetizing tracks with less than 1,000 ...
Spotify is using ghost artists to minimise royalty costs, new ... - NME
Dec 19, 2024 · Per Liz Pelly’s findings shared in Harper’s Magazine, popular playlists ranging from jazz and classical to lo-fi hip-hop are being padded out with material by ghost artists, effectively...
Journalist Liz Pelly explores Spotify’s ‘Perfect Fit Content’
Dec 19, 2024 · US-based journalist Liz Pelly has been one of Spotify’s key critics in the media, and her new book ‘Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist’ will be making uneasy reading for the company when it is released in January.
What Spotify Is Really Costing Us | The New Yorker
Dec 23, 2024 · Liz Pelly’s new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist,” is a comprehensive look at how the company’s dominance has profoundly changed the way we ...
In ‘Mood Machine,’ Liz Pelly condemns Spotify’s impact on music …
Jan 2, 2025 · Spotify, Pelly writes, encourages the making of music “just inoffensive enough not to get shut off.” The habits of both listeners and musicians are distorted by the gravitational pull of ...