Spotify allegedly using ‘ghost artists’ to minimise royalty costs

Spotify is padding out listeners’ playlists using “ghost artists” to reduce its royalty costs, a new report has claimed.

According to Liz Pelly’s findings in Harper’s Magazine, the ghost artists are appearing on all sorts of popular playlists from jazz and classical to lo-fi hip-hop. It effectively lowers the amount of royalties Spotify pays genuine musicians while increasing their overall profit margins...

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