“I Never Owned Any Music ... player, according to a survey by Luminate. All this has made White bullish on novel methods for artists to engage with listeners outside of places like Spotify ...

Spotify’s new royalty system ... of the sounds at a “fraction of the value” of music track streams. A sound featuring 30 seconds of white noise has thus far been worth the same as an artist ...

Then, author Liz Pelly stops by to discuss her new book on Spotify, and how its algorithms are reshaping music culture ... from talking to folks in the White House and the government.