Thank you to the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

I've had a Premium Spotify account since 2017 (all hail the student account prices of the 2010s) and I've also been an advocate for Spotify after iTunes/Apple Music forced that U2 album on all of us that we still can't get rid of. However, Mood Machine unveils that not all is all sunshine and skittles behind the rise of Spotify. 

Make no mistake, this is a dense book of journalism. So much so that I decided to pick up the audiobook on Libby instead of continuing on in my ARC from the publisher. The author delves into the rise of Spotify in Sweden and its sweep over Europe before it jumped the pond into the US market. 

Spotify is not the perfect streamer company that many make it out to be. Musicians barely make money off of the platform and now Spotify is adding in AI music into playlists so that real musicians make even less money.

The new Spotify game seems to be using AI to undermine the consumer and the artists without any of us realizing it until now.