Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
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Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#2Yeah, nothing fishy here at all. Why pay tribute to other artists if you can make a deal with one and promote him on all the playlist to pocket back your money. Just give him the machinery and funding to create all of it and voila!
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#3> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba.
Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#4> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba. Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
He's basically SEOing Spotify. Search for "peaceful piano" or whatever, and you'll likely find the guy's tracks.
At home, whenever we eat X, we have a habit of asking Spotify to play X. We've made some great discoveries this way (Cornflakes 3D is an Israeli psytrance group, while The Dumplings is a Czech indie band), but these days almost all the searches have been hijacked by "playlist called Italian Restaurant Music" etc.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#5> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba. Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
The only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#6> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba. Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
The only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up, though, not out of any sort of "honest" artistic intention.
Like all those "$bandname for kids" releases that are just midis played through xylophone, marimba patches, or occasionally strings. Credited to legitimate sounding "artists" like the "Vitamin Quartet".
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up, though, not out of any sort of "honest" artistic intention. Like all those "$bandname for kids" releases that are just midis played through xylophone, marimba patches, or occasionally strings. Credited to legitimate sounding "artists" like the "Vitamin Quartet".
He's just playing within the system given. People should stop subscribing to services like these and then people like him won't exist.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up, though, not out of any sort of "honest" artistic intention. Like all those "$bandname for kids" releases that are just midis played through xylophone, marimba patches, or occasionally strings. Credited to legitimate sounding "artists" like the "Vitamin Quartet".
> He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up
That’s art.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#9> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba. Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
He's basically SEOing Spotify. Search for "peaceful piano" or whatever, and you'll likely find the guy's tracks. At home, whenever we eat X, we have a habit of asking Spotify to play X. We've made some great discoveries this way (Cornflakes 3D is an Israeli psytrance group, while The Dumplings is a Czech indie band), but these days almost all the searches have been hijacked by "playlist called Italian Restaurant Musi…
The Dumplings is a polish band :)
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#10Yeah, nothing fishy here at all. Why pay tribute to other artists if you can make a deal with one and promote him on all the playlist to pocket back your money. Just give him the machinery and funding to create all of it and voila!
Is there the suggestion that he’s getting a sweetheart deal there? I missed it if so