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Ghost artists on Spotify

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556 points greenie_beans | 1 comments | 19 Dec 24 14:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.312s | source
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mholm ◴[20 Dec 24 04:33 UTC] No.42468307[source]▶
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
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1. pinkmuffinere ◴[20 Dec 24 05:06 UTC] No.42468433[source]▶
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???