I think this is a pretty valid point—in fact the effect of Spotify's approach to promoting music with this hegemonic quality has been documented pretty well, ev

I think this is a pretty valid point—in fact the effect of Spotify's approach to promoting music with this hegemonic quality has been documented pretty well, even resulting in something people call "The Spotify Sound": https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/06/how-the-spotify-sound-is-changing-music.html https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/06/how-the-spotify-soun... Not to mention they were caught with their hands in the cookie jar a number of times, promoting their own fake artists "algorithmically", and it was such a good game that Sony got in on it as well.