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Spotify denies filling popular playlists with 'fake artists'

• k-mcgrady 9y ago
  Here's the source: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-is-creating-its-own-recordings-and-putting-them-on-playlists/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-is-creating-i...
  • zimpenfish 9y ago
    A more recent source (MBW's follow up to the linked article) - https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-denies-its-playlisting-fake-artists-so-why-are-all-these-fake-artists-on-its-playlists/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-denies-its-pl...
• tontonius 9y ago
  Spotify's response could be a classic non-denial denial. >"We do not and have never created 'fake' artists and put them on Spotify playlists. Categorically untrue, full stop" For this to be true: some third party created them on behalf of Spotify. >“We pay royalties -- sound and publishing -- for all tracks on Spotify, and for everything we playlist. FTTBT: they pay the third party a non-zero sum (normal rates??) >"We do not own rights, we’re not a label, all our music is licensed from rightsholders and we pay them -- we don’t pay ourselves." FTTBT: third party frontman "owns the rights", duuh Then again, I, for one, welcome our new musical overlords ;)