[nadermx]

What I wonder is if Spotify's algorithm works in such a way that it ranks based on users fully listening and liking most songs, wouldn't he have actually been better off releasing all his music under one name, vs many? Because he is still releasing quite a bit of volume to achieve this

[nojs]

Not necessarily, it might be better to stratify by genre (like buying a separate domain for different product verticals), to make the algorithm think each one is super relevant and specific.

[chongli]

Exactly. Listeners expect an artist to stay in their lane. A cross-genre artist would be wildly unpopular. Think of a guy releasing both country and hip hop music: he would be disliked by both listeners.

[rightbyte]

It seems to be some sort of common principal component analysis.

E.g.

A likes a. B likes b. B likes c. A maybe likes c.

But with many more nodes. I think they use it for recommendations and subgenre sorting etc.