@Brian Hennessey recently made an interesting discovery when his track Lifted landed on the high-reach Spotify editorial playlist "Deep Focus" (see https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ5ahDUCaiH/). The rumors about so-called "ghost artists" and the term "Perfect Fit Content" (PFC) used internally by Spotify were already uncovered some time ago in Liz Pelly's book Mood Machine. What I've been missing since then is quantifiable evidence about how common these artists actually are in major playlists. To shed some light on this, I've spent the last few days building a tool with Claude Code to identify the "ghosts". I'm currently cross-checking the results with Brian and wanted to share them with you. Full methodology and results are in the HTML file below. 👇🏼 If you know of other suspicious playlists you'd like me to run through the tool, or if you have tips and ideas on how to improve the detection methodology, I'd love to hear your feedback. 🎸

Hey everyone, I'm very excited about this instrumental Beatles cover on my new EP, and it comes with a scenic music video too - filmed in south-east Australia's misty rainforests. If that sounds interesting, please give it a watch and a like (I'm trying to crack YouTube, haha) https://youtu.be/WfkNy9twi54 Cheers, Max

Hello Everyone. First, I’d like to thank Sebastian for accepting me into this group and look forward to getting to know everyone. I’m hoping to get some sage advice. I am putting the final touches on my first song and have been doing a lot of research on the various distributors (DistroKid, CD Baby, etc.). To be honest, I’m a little overwhelmed by all the choices. For those of you who have already released your music, I would love to get your thoughts/experiences on which ones you would recommend (or would avoid)? I apologize in advance if this topic has been discussed before.

Many new releases this May! Listing them below — apologies if I missed someone 🙂 - @Sebastian Jautschus : https://open.spotify.com/track/3S6A2DXqdsaUoPEngGNF75?si=aPcJDfPvSTG7fyq1-tVGyA - @Rebecca Mardal: https://open.spotify.com/album/33fiUPjr0y7Q8mx7SijUhW?si=mZCBxIAWRpWvAZTNbuLohw - @Slower Tempo: https://open.spotify.com/track/1tUToIeZGWwqSTLZGeAtxg?si=b-kVhdapSTmgbp8bFqEWdQ - @Brian Hennessey From Somewhere Quiet: https://open.spotify.com/track/79lEV0QpKMzAfcoxIJICh8?si=tiq6ji1MT-W7JQLRZzV-mQ - @Peter Monrad Friend From Work: https://open.spotify.com/track/7nMCXcQoC3owBO88Q8swky?si=8iG-ThyMRyetbTkJBcraLg - @Nathaniel Graham : https://open.spotify.com/track/2434qr9MVLrdOkgA5Vzyqg?si=ADDwbO7mS4Ges9NG6dJqwg - @Sebastian Henkelmann : https://open.spotify.com/album/36iBJUw5HiRK6y3WpZQziN?si=8q2ks12mSxyMAOB-vbQHzA - Not Enough Silence: https://open.spotify.com/track/6cMvnZciT4mV313kBY3o26?si=aB3wTS2TTkivrSvuKqC31A - Tides On Saturn: https://open.spotify.com/track/2XxOYFoIxTX48yJQ9cH6I5?si=Mcb0MKE5Tu2eJ8NRhBGRTg Also sharing my album From A Flood Of Words Only The Current Remains, which includes the single with @Rebecca Mardal plus 9 new tracks: https://open.spotify.com/album/1xPy6soMCJtMp1HmBe2KWD?si=Rx8Yh3xsSrayAPgUPH2vtw

Hey ya'll - I'm going to do it! I'm going to upload my first instrumental track under the artist name "Toe Beans" !!! BUT . . . . I'm getting myself into a bit of a pickle over making sure the song is as good as it can be for my first release - mix and master wise. I made some small adjustments and then attempted a go at mastering using stock plugins and a YouTube tutorial. I feel like I have no clue what I'm doing :P I want to get good enough to do everything myself and I appreciate that you have to keep doing it over and over to refine your process/style etc, but would really appreciate one more round of opinions before I release this bad boy into the world. Attached is a wav file so I hope it plays :P Basically, in short: Is this of enough quality to upload?