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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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