"#Spotify not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as 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 % of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform. The program’s name: #PerfectFitContent (PFC) raises troubling prospects for working #musicians!"

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

"Why pay full-price royalties if users were only half listening? It was likely from this reasoning that the Perfect Fit Content program was created."

Fake artists have flooded Spotify playlists.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Spotify #Royalties #MusicIndustry #FakeArtists #PerfectFitContent #HarpersMagazine