A lot of that is spam, algorithmically generated music. Even calling it that is generous. Titles like "baby sleep sounds" try to get playtime as mindless backgr

A lot of that is spam, algorithmically generated music. Even calling it that is generous. Titles like "baby sleep sounds" try to get playtime as mindless background music. SoundCloud is especially bad with the spam. You'll find tracks there that are typo squats or similar which are just text-to-speech voices advertising a porn or casino site. The conversion rate on that has to be absolutely abysmal, I suspect the person buying this kind of "advertising" is getting scammed themselves. But either way, the article's point stands, even if 9/10ths of new music on streaming services isn't made in good faith.