@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. 🎸

let's get to know each other. comment below, sharing a photo of your (current fav) guitar, how you got into making instrumental guitar music, and maybe what you do besides making music. I'm happy to have you here 🫶🏼 PS: oh also please feel free to link your music! PPS: there's also an app of Skool btw. which makes keeping up with what's happening in here a little easier.

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.

Yo yo! Is the hangout happening? It seems to have disappeared from the calendar! 😲

hello my friends, I hope you're doing great! I'm thinking of you. if you have time, let's hang out tomorrow at 2pm Berlin time. and a bit of context under which rock I'm buried right now 🦦