PDS 2.1 Corpse vs Spotify Controversy, Evan Rachel Wood Marilyn Manson Accusation, Myanmar, & More
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.8 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So you beautiful bastards. |
| 0:01.7 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. |
| 0:03.4 | It is Monday, February 1st, 2021. |
| 0:06.2 | Hit that like button, otherwise it will punch you in the throat. |
| 0:08.7 | And let's just jump into the news of the day, |
| 0:10.9 | so you can get back to yours. |
| 0:12.0 | Where we'll start today is with entertainment slash entertainer news, |
| 0:15.0 | starting with Corp's husband. |
| 0:16.4 | So for those unfamiliar, in addition to Corpius |
| 0:18.1 | being a massive internet personality where he can trend on Twitter just for releasing audio of himself breathing. |
| 0:23.9 | And he've a lot of people learning about him due to his super successful gaming videos. He's also actually a musician. He creates original music. A song E-girls ruined my life just on YouTube has over 30 million views. But he actually popped up in the news over the last 24 hours because of Spotify. |
| 0:38.3 | With Corp's posting and now deleted tweets, it's completely all you guys, always, thank you so much. |
| 0:42.3 | Reportedly showing just 1% of his Spotify plays coming from the platform's official editorial playlists. |
| 0:47.3 | Further explaining, to clarify, a lot of bigger artists get a good amount of their plays from big Spotify editorial playlist, |
| 0:52.3 | which is what Spotify's editorial team pushes to large amounts of people. But, you know, with all this, corpse hits on something that has been kind of a long talked about issue. |
| 1:11.6 | With a change in the music industry that we've seen over the last five, ten, 15 years, one of the, one of the biggest things has been small creators that aren't backed by anyone, they can upload stuff in a lot of different places, blow up. |
| 1:21.6 | And so you have some people saying, you know, the gatekeepers of old are gone, but you have others saying, well, the gatekeepers just changed. |
| 1:27.9 | While there are a number of players in the space, I mean, if you look to Spotify, it's kind of |
| 1:31.7 | an understood that playlists have a lot of power. You've even had economists putting out |
| 1:35.6 | working papers noting that if you get into certain playlist, something like today's top hits, |
| 1:40.7 | I mean, you're talking about tens of millions of extra streams, which of course is huge for an artist getting awareness in front of new eyes, but also money. And hell, I need to see if they're still doing this, if it's become more standard. But I mean, this news today is coming just a few months after it was reported that Spotify was announcing a controversial experimental feature. One that would notably allow artists to get an algorithmic boost |
| 2:01.0 | on the company's playlist if they took a smaller cut |
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