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Spotify is using ghost artists to minimise royalty costs, new report claims
Spotify is filling listeners’ playlists with “ghost artists” to minimise royalty costs.Per Liz Pelly’s findings shared in Harper’s Magazine, popular playlists ranging from jazz and classical to lo-fi hip-hop are being padded out with material by ghost artists, effectively decreasing the amount of royalties Spotify pays genuine musicians while increasing their overall profit margins.Known as “Perfect Fit Content” (PFC), the practice was introduced to Spotify’s editors in 2017 and engineered to maximise profit by partnering with a collection of production companies, largely located outside the US.Pelly’s report noted that when the issue first came into public view earlier this year, a Spotify spokesperson claimed the allegations were “categorically untrue, full stop”, and denied the company was creating its own fake-artist tracks.NME has reached out to Spotify for a comment.“But,” she continued, “while Spotify may not have created them, it stopped short of denying that it had added them to its playlists.”The report also nodded to findings by music writer David Turner, who used analytics to show Spotify’s “Ambient Chill” playlist had been wiped of artists like Brian Eno, Bibio, and Jon Hopkins in favour of tracks from Epidemic Sound, a Swedish company that offers a subscription-based library of production music, including the kind of stock material largely used in the background of adverts and TV programmes.One former employee said of the practice: “Some of us really didn’t feel good about what was happening. We didn’t like that it was these two guys that normally write pop songs replacing swaths of artists across the board.
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Arooj Aftab, Gold Panda and more for new Polygon Live LDN 2025 – the UK’s largest outdoor spatial audio festival
Arooj Aftab and Gold Panda are among the names to have been announced for a new London festival, Polygon Live LDN 2025.Set to run in Crystal Palace Park from May 2 to May 4, it will be the largest outdoor spatial audio festival ever to be held in the UK, with early bird tickets on sale now – you can get yours here.Pakistani-American singer and composer Aftab – whose fourth solo album ‘Night Reign’ was named as one of the 50 best albums of 2024 by NME – will play at the site, as will London electronic producer Gold Panda, who released his latest album ‘The Work’ in 2022.Also on the bill is the celebrated producer Jon Hopkins, who has collaborated with Charli XCX and Coldplay in recent months as well as releasing his hypnotic new album ‘Ritual’.A post shared by Polygon LIVE | 360° Spatial Sound & Immersive Events Production (@polygon.live)Other names announced so far are Tinariwen, Halina Rice, Nitin Sawhney and Photay.Polygon Live LDN will feature the first ever use of spatial audio company Polygon Live’s dual-dome stage design, with speakers surrounding the audience, as well as over their heads. Each dome will boast almost 100 speakers, which is claimed to be five times the typical number for a festival stage.Polygon Live CEO Nico Elliott has said: “Originally, our deployment of spatial audio emerged from the live sets of electronic music.
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Kelly Lee Owens talks new album ‘Dreamstate’ and the “family” of Dirty Hit’s new spin-off dance label
Kelly Lee Owens has spoken to NME about her new album ‘Dreamstate’’, being driven by the spirit of collaboration, and releasing it on Dirty Hit’s new spin-off dance label.The Welsh musician and producer’s latest LP will be released later this week (October 18), and is the first record to be released via dh2 (Dirty Hit’s new electronic imprint being spearheaded by The 1975’s George Daniel).“Ultimately it’s arriving at a place in my life where I accept who I am,” Owens told NME, “and the parts of me that had been shamed before: it’s derogatory to be a daydreamer, and actually the happiest parts of myself are when I’m either in those states alone, or those states alone allow me to come together with other people in those states.”She continued: “It’s the thing that I almost enjoy the most about being human, ironically, is finding a dreamstate, and I feel on a bigger collective level, it’s also what’s needed most as a reminder of the importance of taking the time away to dream and to be in that place. Music, for me, has always been a direct door to get to a dreamstate.”Check out our full interview below, where Owens tells NME about the universe of ‘Dreamstate’, exploring lyrics with Charli XCX, her expanded team of collaborators on the album (including Bicep, The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and George Daniel) as well as her time touring with Depeche Mode and the musical influence of Madonna’s seminal ‘Ray of Light’ – the latter was something she simply “could not get away from”.NME: Hey Kelly. When did work on ‘Dreamstate’ begin?Owens: “The track ‘Sunshine’ was made in the final sessions for [2020 album] ‘Inner Song’, around the time that I was making ‘Luminous Spaces’, the remix with Jon Hopkins.

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