How Spotify is Making Music Worse with Liz Pelly @TheAdamConover
How Spotify is Making Music Worse with Liz Pelly  @TheAdamConover
Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
#CashAppPartner
Download Cash App Today: capl.onelink.me/vFut/2vjj5nrh #CashAppPod. As a Cash App partner, I may earn a commission when you sign up for a Cash App account. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.

It’s no secret that Spotify pays artists extremely poorly, but it turns out they don’t treat their customers much better. Author and journalist Liz Pelly’s new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, investigates how Spotify has accelerated the collapse of the music industry, along with their shady practices such as filling playlists with stock music—fooling customers into listening to artists who don’t actually exist. This week, Adam sits with Liz to talk about how a service that brands itself around “discovery” is actually flattening the music-listening experience of customers worldwide. Find Liz's book at factuallypod.com/books

--

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: patreon.com/adamconover

SEE ADAM ON TOUR: adamconover.net/tourdates

SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Factually! on:

» Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577

» Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0fK8WJw4ffMc2NWydBlDyJ

About Headgum: Headgum is an LA & NY-based podcast network creating premium podcasts with the funniest, most engaging voices in comedy to achieve one goal: Making our audience and ourselves laugh. Listen to our shows at https://www.headgum.com.

» SUBSCRIBE to Headgum: youtube.com/c/HeadGum?sub_confirmation=1

» FOLLOW us on Twitter: twitter.com/headgum

» FOLLOW us on Instagram: instagram.com/headgum

» FOLLOW us on TikTok: tiktok.com/@headgum

» Advertise on Factually! via Gumball.fm
How Spotify is Making Music Worse with Liz PellyShould Prison Be Reformed, or Abolished? with Tommie Shelby - Factually! - 256How the Wealthy Hack the World with Atossa Araxia AbrahamianHow 30,000 People Formed an Impossible Union, with Ethan Bakuli and Rodney TatePhilanthropists are not as charitable as you think.The Texas Primary and the Pope Hates A.I. with Erin Ryan and Andra WhippleA.I. Companies Are Stealing Your Face with Kashmir HillThe World According to the Chinese Internet, with Yi-Ling LiuHealth Insurers Use A.I. to Screw You! with T. Christian Miller and Patrick RuckerEverything in America is a Pyramid Scheme Now with Bridget ReadStop Snitching with Alexandra Natapoff - FACTUALLYThe Amazon Labor Union is Revolutionary
Adam Conover |

How Spotify is Making Music Worse with Liz Pelly

SHARE TO X SHARE TO REDDIT SHARE TO FACEBOOK WALLPAPER