Lång artikel om alla mer eller mindre suspekta sätt som skivbolag och artister tricksar med sina släpp – album med 40 låtar eller mer, covers, personliga "Happy birthday"-versioner, låtar och artister som "inspirerats" av andra, kändare artister, och så vidare:
His hit song has also been a boon for Spotify’s parasitic underbelly — the coverbots and ripoff artists who vomit out inferior versions of popular songs every week, flooding the website with dreck that only succeeds when users are misled. No one would willingly listen to King Stitch’s “Sit Down, Be Humble,” a third-rate cover of Lamar’s original, but the track has been streamed more than 300,000 times thanks to Spotify’s broad search results and a clever title designed to confuse those who don’t know the song’s real name.Väl värt att läsa, om så bara för att känna till alla sätt det går att manipulera strömning av musik.Some artists, a term used very loosely here, are providing people exactly what they want. It just so happens that what they want is ephemeral nonsense. Take, for example, the artist Happy Birthday Library, whose Spotify catalogue consists of hundreds of personalized versions of “Happy Birthday” streamed more than a million times.
The Streaming Problem: How Spammers, Superstars, and Tech Giants Gamed the Music Industry