Spotify's reluctance to be transparent about its "ghost artists" and the studios' bad labor practices are yucky, but I was still left waiting for the author of this story to convince me why listeners aren't the real cause of these industry shifts. Never happened.
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians
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