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Joel Gouveia
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Joel Gouveia writes The Artist Economy, a personal blog at joelgouveia.substack.com about business and economics. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Minutes Away from Being Obsolete”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its account of Spotify paying production companies to make fake-artist ambient and cafe jazz tracks to cut royalties. One commenter quotes it to attack Spotify's payouts.
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For the artists, managers, and operators building the next music industry. Owned audiences, real economics, and the playbooks the major labels won't write.
Most-linked posts?
- The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Minutes Away from Being Obsolete3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-27
What Hacker News says?
‘Spotify was caught (very publicly) paying production companies to make ambient and cafe jazz tracks under fake artist names so they could pay fewer royalties to real artists.’ Spotify is an anti-music leech. As if their minuscule streaming payouts weren’t bad enough, now this? ‘ Roughly twenty songwriters were operating behind more than five hundred fake artist names. One production company, Firefly Entertainment,…
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on “The AI purge has begun”Submitted The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Minutes Away from Being Obsolete as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI purge has begun as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Minutes Away from Being Obsolete as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Minutes Away from Being Obsolete as a story · 2 points
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