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I encountered this last Christmas: My parents were running a Christmas music playlist. All the bangers, the Mariah Carey’s and Mannheim Steamrollers, and maybe
by mholm 2y ago
I encountered this last Christmas: My parents were running a Christmas music playlist. All the bangers, the Mariah Carey’s and Mannheim Steamrollers, and maybe 1/10 songs were this really soft yet bad piano playing. So I look into it and this guy gets $200,000 per year, just slipping his inoffensive slop into popular playlists he created and got to the top of Spotify search
- sitkack 2y agoI'd love to see their Settlers of Catan game.
- foota 2y agoHuh?
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoThe implication is that the artist has very creative strategies. It would be fun to see what they come up with in settlers
- foota 2y agoThat's a lot of leaps for me, but seems like a possible interpretation (certainly better than any I came up with).
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoWow this is brilliant. I’m on the fence about whether I should be mad — they’re providing a service (curating “all the bangers”), and they have discovered a way to profit from the service. On net I think they’ve made the world a better place???
- circlefavshape 2y ago$200,000 per year from running Spotify playlists? Citation needed - that is wildly implausible
- DrammBA 2y ago> $200,000 per year from running Spotify playlists No, $200,000 per year slipping his inoffensive slop into popular playlists
- Eduard 2y agohow does one slip their tracks into someone else's playlist? I rather guess playlist curators decide on their own which tracks they put in their owned playlists.
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoIt's the same guy making the playlist and slipping the slop. "He who collated created"
- ntlk 2y agoA lot of playlist owners take submissions, and some have pricing lists, charging a set amount for featuring a song for a month or longer.