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Re:Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid... by colinmhayes on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:00PM (#30795878)
> The vast majority of curating and playlisting is through bloggers or social media

Not sure about this. Maybe for big music fans, but most casual listeners aren't reading music blogs. They're throwing on spotify playlists which allow artists to pay to get boosted. Guess what, it's the major label artists that can afford those payments. They're seeing that their favorite tiktoker made a video with some new band. Guess what, the tiktoker was paid by a label to use that music.

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Re:Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid... by bryans on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:35PM (#30796275)
You have entirely misunderstood the conversation and how playlisting works. We were already literally discussing Spotify playlists. The curators (bloggers and social media personalities) use their platform to solicit submissions, which they filter and then add to their Spotify playlist. Nobody said anything about Spotify listeners reading blogs to find music.

You're also being very conspiratorial by pretending that all playlists and TikTok users are being paid to place music. It does exist, but is not even remotely as ubiquitous as you're pretending.

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Re:Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid... by JumpCrisscross on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:59AM (#30799091)
> curators (bloggers and social media personalities) use their platform to solicit submissions, which they filter and then add to their Spotify playlist

This is a solid but niche market. There is no conspiracy. But distribution is hard. Getting a few thousand listeners is different from serving hundreds of millions.

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