the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist Pelly, Liz 1990- creator text bibliography Informational works Documents d'information nyu 2025 First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books Paperback edition. monographic eng

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xii, 272 pages ; 22 cm "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 music and the rise of new payola-like practices. For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music and create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, Mood Machine will change the way you think about and listen to music"-- Publisher's website. The bureau of piracy... -- "Saving" the music industry -- Selling lean-back listening -- The conquest of chill -- Ghost artists for hire -- The background music makers -- Streambait pop -- Listen to yourself -- Self-driving music -- Fandom as data -- Sounds for self-optimization -- Streaming as surveillance -- The first .0035 is the hardest -- An app for a boss -- Indie vibes -- This is...payola? -- The lobbyists -- The new music labor movement. Liz Pelly. Includes bibliographical references and index. Spotify (Firm) Spotify (Firm) History Spotify (Firm) Influence Spotify (Empresa) Music and the Internet Música en internet Streaming audio Audio digital Sound recording industry Industria de grabación de sonido Sonido Grabación y reproducción Music trade Technological innovations Música Comercio Innovaciones tecnológicas Reproducción del sonido (Técnicas digitales) Transmisión en vivo (Telecomunicaciones) Musique et Internet Audio en continu Enregistrements sonores Industrie En continu (Télécommunications) Musique Industrie Innovations MUSIC / History & Criticism BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies Music and the Internet Streaming audio Sound recording industry Music trade Streaming technology (Telecommunications) Sound recording industry Music trade Telecommunication ML 3792 P392m 2025 780.285 9781668083512 (pbk) 2025385099 YDX 250515 20260721131941.0 24205346 eng