Ghost artists on Spotify

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

I'd love to see their Settlers of Catan game.

Wow 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???

Huh?

The implication is that the artist has very creative strategies. It would be fun to see what they come up with in settlers

That's a lot of leaps for me, but seems like a possible interpretation (certainly better than any I came up with).

$200,000 per year from running Spotify playlists? Citation needed - that is wildly implausible

how 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.

> $200,000 per year from running Spotify playlists

No, $200,000 per year slipping his inoffensive slop into popular playlists

It's the same guy making the playlist and slipping the slop.

"He who collated created"

A lot of playlist owners take submissions, and some have pricing lists, charging a set amount for featuring a song for a month or longer.