Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting and cultural criticism, focuses on how Spotify has reshaped how we listen to ...

In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the ...

The book, an investigation into the internal practices and cultural effects of the streaming giant, is "an entryway into a ...

From the perspective of a music fan, streaming is, unfortunately, a spectacular product: the universal jukebox! If some have ...

In an excerpt from "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" published in Harper's, author Liz Pelly reveals that the streaming platform has a secretive internal ...

We’ve been hearing about Spotify “ghost artists” for years. Now, there’s an entire book dedicated to the subject – exploring, among other things, the platform’s relationships with the companies ...

If Spotify is actually pushing them down, its going to ruin the careers of people making that music and potentially degrade those genres. As Liz Pelly writes for Harper's, "Spotify had long marketed ...

The report goes into great detail, but here's the short version: rather than give individual artists some much-needed exposure in some playlists, Spotify is buying in music from p ...

Liz Pelly interviewed over 100 industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, to look at how music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Her new book Mood ...

Spotify's influence on the music market is often criticized for working against artists. Beyond the issue of low fees for song plays, programs like Production for Curated Playlists (PFC) are central ...

In the course of her extensive investigation, Liz Pelly spoke to various former Spotify curators and staff, many of which recalled that the internal pressure to add this type of 'PFC' content grew ...