keccers
@keccers.eth
Spotify seeds in-house produced music in playlists created for “passive consumption” so they can pay themselves for your streams https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally
4 replies
3 recasts
33 reactions
John Gazzini
@gazzini
These in-house artists are Shopify's version of "Amazon Basics". Love it.
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
keccers
@keccers.eth
But no. That’s not a correct comparison because they try to hide this. If the artist was correctly attributed “Spotify Studios” it would be this way but they hide behind fake names trying to deceive the user into thinking it’s an actual artist
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
John Gazzini
@gazzini
Competing unfairly & disclosing it still seems shady. They both created an efficient online marketplace, then expanded it to more markets, and are now competing unfairly within those markets. Putting an "I cheated" sign on the first result doesn't move the needle much.
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
John Gazzini
@gazzini
It seems obvious that their strategy is to go "too far" like this, make a huge debate around "should we disclose it?!?", and then finally cave to the will of the people. And Spotify will win, but "the people" will have apparently won. vs if they disclosed out of the gate, people would debate the cheating directly.
2 replies
0 recast
0 reaction
John Gazzini
@gazzini
The author's solution is bad -- like, would the labels do better? Which labels own the platform? Do new artists have vesting cliffs? Drawing the lines between the current definitions of "musician" and distributors ("labels" "platforms" whatever) is probably not that important. We should let music get weird, then better.
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
keccers
@keccers.eth
I dislike the dishonesty of the company in this case. I don't have much dog in a fight about how Spotify has diminished the value of music and getting artists paid fairly and all that. The market does not really value creativity and I don't see that changing in my lifetime
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
