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Ghost artists on Spotify

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556 points greenie_beans | 2 comments | 19 Dec 24 14:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | 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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sitkack ◴[20 Dec 24 04:41 UTC] No.42468345[source]▶
I'd love to see their Settlers of Catan game.
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foota ◴[20 Dec 24 06:20 UTC] No.42468748[source]▶
Huh?
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1. pinkmuffinere ◴[20 Dec 24 06:54 UTC] No.42468884[source]▶
The implication is that the artist has very creative strategies. It would be fun to see what they come up with in settlers
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2. foota ◴[20 Dec 24 07:25 UTC] No.42469000[source]▶
That's a lot of leaps for me, but seems like a possible interpretation (certainly better than any I came up with).