In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the music industry.

Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for ...

Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s— ...

Spotify’s perfect playlists come at a hidden cost—for the fans, for the music scenes that form around bands and, especially, ...

From there, users can filter it by artist, genre, or mood ... must have played at least five songs recently for the playlist ...