Please don’t give #spotify your time, attention, or money. They hate musicians. They hate record labels. They hate you. They love money. They’re generating fake slop and stuffing their playlists full of it. They do it deceitfully by making up artist names and putting the same track out dozens of times under different names, different artists, and different playlists.

And they’re making artists pay (or accept lower royalties) in order to have any hope of appearing.

harpers.org/archive/2025/01/th…

Reported first by Ted Gioia.

honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t…

The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed

A year-long investigation by an indie journalist is a call to action

^{Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker)}