I’ve written about what we were doing there before. More perniciously, I think this could slowly degrade the quality and variety of music we consume, as we’re increasingly funneled towards beige, mass-manufactured music.įull disclaimer - I used to work at Jukedeck, a company building software that can generate music using artificial intelligence.

I believe that Spotify will use Discover Weekly and Spotify Playlists to push users towards the most profitable music. Commission ‘stock’ music - like ‘Relaxing Piano’ - and avoid royalties entirely (or make it themselves using AI).Sign musicians directly to their own record label, and cut out the middlemen.There’s three ways Spotify could make the music more profitable: That’s because music is expensive - you have to pay licensing fees (or royalties) to the three big record labels who control the rights to most of the music you listen to - and you have to pay these for every single customer that joins. Source: Behance and Spotify collaboration for Pride Spotify still lose money

Does spotify cost money