Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist

Name: Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist
Author: Liz Pelly
ISBN: 9781399718844

by Liz Pelly

ISBN: 9781399718844

Published: 2025-01-30

Business & Economics

An unsparing investigation into Spotify's origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock...

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