#perfectfitcontent — Public Fediverse posts

"Perhaps Spotify understood the stakes—that when it removed real classical, jazz, and ambient artists from popular playlists and replaced them with low-budget stock muzak, it was steamrolling real music cultures, actual traditions within which artists were trying to make a living. [...] PFC was irrefutable proof that Spotify rigged its system against musicians who knew their worth."
#Spotify #perfectfitcontent #LizPelly #music #musicians #PFC #longreads #streaming
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

"#Spotify not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as former employee put it, provide Spotify with “music we benefited from financially,” but also a team of employees working to seed these tracks on #playlists across the platform. In doing so, they are effectively working to grow the % of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform. The program’s name: #PerfectFitContent (PFC) raises troubling prospects for working #musicians!"

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/