[runT1ME]

I'm surprised that they haven't taken a page out of Netflix's book: sign small artists that sound close enough to what's popular to their own internal record label and push them in playlists?

[sincerely]

Oh they already do that :)

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-denies-its-pl...

https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/spotify-denies-creating-fa...