The suggested stuff on Spotify is what the labels pay them to push, and there’s nothing illegal about it. It isn’t even necessarily based on what you’ve listened to before, it’s based on things like what time of day you tend to listen, how long for and - obviously - who’s got a tour booked that’s passing your area. The notion that it’s this happy little music player that listens to what you’re listening to and helps you out with suggestions is about as realistic as the idea that Facebook is a wholesome place to share thoughts and ideas.
It’s fine as occasional background music but you’re going to get frustrated fast if you expect more from it. It’s not in their interest to be suggestion Tortoise when there’s a new Ed Sheeran remix out.
I thought as much when I noticed in the Spotify recommendations section it said.
In some cases, commercial considerations may influence our recommendations, but listener satisfaction is our priority.
I was reading that artists can also agree to take receive a reduced amount of royalties in return for being boosted in the algorithm.
Is it true that big money is paid to be featured on some of the big playlists?
I’d also love to know how much Spotify makes from selling all the data they must harvest.
Not even big money, I think it it starts at $500. There are companies that you can pay to get your shit band played because I used to get their spam emails at my old work, presumably because my email had ‘music’ in it.
I was going to go see him in Blackpool tonight but paying £180 for me and the missus plus the strong possibility of bonus covid put me off, mostly the money, though.
