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556 points greenie_beans | 2 comments | 19 Dec 24 14:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.463s | 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. circlefavshape ◴[20 Dec 24 11:29 UTC] No.42470230[source]▶

>>42468307 #

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

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2. DrammBA ◴[20 Dec 24 16:22 UTC] No.42472411[source]▶

>>42470230 (TP) #

> $200,000 per year from running Spotify playlists

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

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