The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may ...

But, as journalist Liz Pelly, has revealed, the biggest streaming platform on the market might have been supplanting real ...

Spotify is allegedly using "ghost artists" to minimise royalty payments, according to a new report investigating how it is ...

In Pelly’s investigation, she found that Spotify had been working with stock-music companies like Epidemic, which offer music ...

According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying its piddling ...

The report goes into great detail, but here's the short version: rather than give individual artists some much-needed ...

As the year winds down, Spotify, which should be going out on a high, is instead mired in controversy. After slogging through ...

Author Liz Pelly penned a preview of that book, entitled Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect ...

Spotify's influence on the music market is often criticized for working against artists. Beyond the issue of low fees for ...

In order to avoid paying actual recording artists the $.003 they earn for each play of their songs, Spotify has started ...

Spotify's use of low-cost, pseudonymous tracks in its playlists is undercutting the work of real musicians, according to an ...

US-based journalist Liz Pelly has been one of Spotify’s key critics in the media, and her new book crystallises that.