[HN Gopher] Study Confirms That Major Labels Control Spotify Pla...
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       Study Confirms That Major Labels Control Spotify Playlists
        
       Author : kvee
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2022-06-26 16:32 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.digitalmusicnews.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.digitalmusicnews.com)
        
       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | I love how this site loads and then covers it all up with a "your
       | ad blocker has broken the site. If you want to enjoy our
       | copyrighted works, you must fix that."
       | 
       | But please, complain about major labels controlling Spotify
       | playlists while you seek to control consumer attention and data
       | in another way.
        
       | iLoveOncall wrote:
       | The title is absolute clickbait as it hints that labels would
       | have a direct control (as in, decision power) in the playlists,
       | which is not the case.
       | 
       | All this "study" showed is that major labels have major artists,
       | which are unsurprisingly over-represented over nobodies or
       | smaller artists in playlists curated by a company trying to
       | please the most people possible.
       | 
       | Shocking indeed.
        
       | karmakaze wrote:
       | The only playlists I regularly play are my own or Discover Weekly
       | and Daily Mix #1 thru #6.
        
       | amluto wrote:
       | dang, can you change the link to:
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       | https://www.music-tomorrow.com/blog/is-spotify-editorial-pla...
       | 
       | The linked article is a nearly content-free and extremely weak
       | summary of what appears to be the actual content.
        
         | saaaaaam wrote:
         | Yes, please do. Digital Music News is full-on crazy pointy hair
         | ranting click bait.
         | 
         | The Music Tomorrow analysis is very flimsy (tiny number of
         | playlists over a very short period) but at least it's the
         | source.
        
       | huitzitziltzin wrote:
       | This seems like a very lazy analysis. If the major labels simply
       | signed better artists you'd end up with the same result. If they
       | have slightly better judgment about what is likely to be popular
       | than average you would expect that result.
        
       | michaelcampbell wrote:
       | Given the history of the music industry, surely this isn't a
       | surprise to anyone.
        
       | MawKKe wrote:
       | Sort of related: I could swear that Spotify's weekly
       | recommendation playlist serves me better music on the preceding
       | week whenever the subscription is about to renew. As in, they
       | intentionally do this to keep me on the platform. Am I going
       | crazy?
        
       | jokoon wrote:
       | I also noticed that regularly, my YouTube playlist has songs that
       | disappear, and it's hard to know which song it was.
        
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