Liz Pelly's Harper's Magazine article exposes Spotify's "Perfect Fit Content" (PFC) program, which secretly uses low-cost, often anonymously produced music to fill playlists.

Here's the article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

This practice, revealed through internal documents and interviews, significantly reduces Spotify's royalty payments to artists while potentially misleading listeners.

The program involves partnerships with several production companies that mass-produce this background music, impacting the livelihoods of musicians and raising ethical concerns about transparency and the devaluation of music.

Pelly's investigation traces the evolution of Spotify's business model and its increasing reliance on algorithms and data-driven decisions, highlighting how this approach has negatively impacted the music industry.

The article further explores the broader implications for music culture, particularly concerning the blurred lines between artistic expression and commercially driven content creation.

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