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> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in m
by spiderice 3y ago
> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba.
Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
- resolutebat 3y agoHe's basically SEOing Spotify. Search for "peaceful piano" or whatever, and you'll likely find the guy's tracks. At home, whenever we eat X, we have a habit of asking Spotify to play X. We've made some great discoveries this way (Cornflakes 3D is an Israeli psytrance group, while The Dumplings is a Czech indie band), but these days almost all the searches have been hijacked by "playlist called Italian Restaurant Music" etc.
- sdfhbdf 3y agoThe Dumplings is a polish band :)
- resolutebat 3y agoWhoops, I stand corrected!
- MrJohz 3y ago> At home, whenever we eat X, we have a habit of asking Spotify to play X. I love this idea! It's a shame it doesn't work so well any more, but I love finding new ways to find music that you'd just never listen to normally. It reminds me of the guy who made it is mission to listen to every album that was made in 2016 specifically, and now has hundreds of albums with so much variety, just by picking some specific theme and going wild with it.
- tetha 3y agoI've recently been pointed at the 1001 album generator[1] I just started on thursday and so far it has shown me Rage against the Machine, and some Jazz 20 years older than I am. Quite the experience. 1: https://1001albumsgenerator.com/ https://1001albumsgenerator.com/
- notnaut 3y agoYou sound like a fun parent/partner.
- hobs 3y agoThe only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
- TylerE 3y agoHe seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up, though, not out of any sort of "honest" artistic intention. Like all those "$bandname for kids" releases that are just midis played through xylophone, marimba patches, or occasionally strings. Credited to legitimate sounding "artists" like the "Vitamin Quartet".
- markles 3y agoHe's just playing within the system given. People should stop subscribing to services like these and then people like him won't exist.
- andsoitis 3y ago> He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up That’s art.
- BriggyDwiggs42 3y agoWait, isnt that sort of the exact opposite?
- falserum 3y agoI think what parent meant was, all poplar art tries to sarisfy some “algorithm”. (Algorithm of what will masses listen to) 20 years ago that was trying to pick good ratios of bass, haircut, and marketing to get into mtv top ten.
- card_zero 3y agoI'm reminded of The Manual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual