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Fanalytics site just dropped👀 https://t.co/5gzV0HugiL

We've long suspected that Spotify was recruiting fake artists and juicing them in its algorithm and placing them on the most popular playlists. Liz Pelly collected the internal docs + other evidence to finally prove it. https://t.co/q4w1SbTqs0

Spotify is changing how it pays artists. Shifting $1 billion in royalties over 5 years. Learn about the biggest changes to music's royalty system since 2011↓ https://t.co/U3xdsFWpy7

There is an overload of music. 60,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. Over 20% of those don’t get streamed even once. The ubiquitous access to almost every piece of recorded music in history has led to a paradox of choice, promoting passive and playlist-driven music consumption and creating winner-take-all effects for the biggest artists.