Has Spotify done more harm than good? Liz Pelly, author of “Mood Machine” discusses what the app has done to the music ...

The Rise Of Spotify & The Costs Of The Perfect Playlist. The Spotify showdown: as the financial centre of gravity for much […] ...

Music lovers embraced it as a 'celestial jukebox' - but a new book reveals how its business model is flattening the musical ...

Liz Pelly’s book Mood Machine uncovers the ways the streaming giant has undermined our relationship with music.

Nearly every song ever recorded is available for about $12 a month, or free if you don’t mind the ads. But while the streaming giant Spotify has conquered the music industry, many of the artists ...

We are no longer fans. Now we’ve outsourced our demos of devotion; outsourced them to music streaming steamroller Spotify, the subject of Liz Pelly’s virtuosic new book Mood Machine ...

According to the American music critic Liz Pelly, in her passionate and rigorous book Mood Machine, the platform has been profoundly damaging for all but the most commercially successful musicians ...

Pelly also alleges that Spotify encourages passive listening with its readily-delivered playlists — the successor of the ’90s mixtape that one spent hours to make and was cherished as a gift ...

Recently, Snoop Dogg removed his music from Spofity after claiming the streaming platform paid him $45,000 for 1 billion ...

And that has big implications for how artists get paid. LIZ PELLY, Author, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist": Streaming services don't pay per stream ...

Is there a cost to your Spotify habit? With a reported 670 million-plus monthly active users, the Swedish company has ...