The Cheater’s Guide to Spotify

Why Spotify Has So Many Bizarre, Generic Artists Like ‘White Noise Baby Sleep’

The platform is filled with search-optimized spammers, and there’s no end in sight

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8 min readSep 22, 2020

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Photo illustration sources: Kevin Liu; Kilito Chan; Thanapol Kuptanisakorn; EyeEm/Getty Images

Welcome to The Cheater’s Guide to Spotify, a series about the schemes that rack up streams, money, and infamy on the…

Peter Slattery

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