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> The vast majority of curating and playlisting is through bloggers or social media Not sure about this. Maybe for big music fans, but most casual listeners ar
by colinmhayes 5y ago
> The vast majority of curating and playlisting is through bloggers or social media
Not sure about this. Maybe for big music fans, but most casual listeners aren't reading music blogs. They're throwing on spotify playlists which allow artists to pay to get boosted. Guess what, it's the major label artists that can afford those payments. They're seeing that their favorite tiktoker made a video with some new band. Guess what, the tiktoker was paid by a label to use that music.
- bryans 5y agoYou have entirely misunderstood the conversation and how playlisting works. We were already literally discussing Spotify playlists. The curators (bloggers and social media personalities) use their platform to solicit submissions, which they filter and then add to their Spotify playlist. Nobody said anything about Spotify listeners reading blogs to find music. You're also being very conspiratorial by pretending that all playlists and TikTok users are being paid to place music. It does exist, but is not even remotely as ubiquitous as you're pretending.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> curators (bloggers and social media personalities) use their platform to solicit submissions, which they filter and then add to their Spotify playlist This is a solid but niche market. There is no conspiracy. But distribution is hard. Getting a few thousand listeners is different from serving hundreds of millions.