In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the ...

Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting and cultural criticism, focuses on how Spotify has reshaped how we listen to ...

The media will focus on a handful of pop acts when the true action will be in smaller acts outside the national consciousness ...

The book, an investigation into the internal practices and cultural effects of the streaming giant, is "an entryway into a ...

Liz Pelly interviewed over 100 industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, to look at how music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Her new book Mood ...

It’s fitting that the first snow of the new year fell as I was editing this list; if anything, it made me want to pause work ...

From the perspective of a music fan, streaming is, unfortunately, a spectacular product: the universal jukebox! If some have ...

Parents of teenage pop fans will be spending a fortune, the Beatles revival will continue, and there'll be a slew of ...

Spotify calls these songs 'Perfect Fit Content (PFC)' and actively uses them as part of its monetization strategy, as revealed by author Liz Perry in her book ' Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify ...

The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may ...

Liz Pelly investigated the practice in her article “The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s plot against musicians” in Harper’s Magazine. Link here. Called Perfect Fit Content (PFC), it seems to be ...