But, as journalist Liz Pelly, has revealed, the biggest streaming platform on the market might have been supplanting real ...

Spotify is allegedly using "ghost artists" to minimise royalty payments, according to a new report investigating how it is ...

According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying its piddling ...

In Pelly’s investigation, she found that Spotify had been working with stock-music companies like Epidemic, which offer music ...

We’ve been hearing about Spotify “ghost artists” for years. Now, there’s an entire book dedicated to the subject – exploring, ...

The report goes into great detail, but here's the short version: rather than give individual artists some much-needed ...

As the year winds down, Spotify, which should be going out on a high, is instead mired in controversy. After slogging through ...

In order to avoid paying actual recording artists the $.003 they earn for each play of their songs, Spotify has started ...

Spotify's influence on the music market is often criticized for working against artists. Beyond the issue of low fees for ...

Spotify's use of low-cost, pseudonymous tracks in its playlists is undercutting the work of real musicians, according to an ...

US-based journalist Liz Pelly has been one of Spotify’s key critics in the media, and her new book crystallises that.

Spotify pads playlists with music by unknown artists, and has been accused of generating this music itself or using cheap ...