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Ghost artists on Spotify

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556 points greenie_beans | 3 comments | 19 Dec 24 14:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.557s | 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. Eduard ◴[20 Dec 24 12:42 UTC] No.42470608[source]▶
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.
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2. pinkmuffinere ◴[20 Dec 24 17:54 UTC] No.42473197[source]▶
It's the same guy making the playlist and slipping the slop.

"He who collated created"

3. ntlk ◴[21 Dec 24 08:39 UTC] No.42478284[source]▶
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.