You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

Peaceful Piano was initially programmed with pre-existing piano music that happened to be particularly peaceful, but it quickly created a shadow mini-economy of pseudonymous filler purpose-made to appear there or in a spiraling array of imitators. Spotify has been accused of making some of this music itself to avoid paying royalties, which it doesn’t, but this is a meager legal consolation.