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

public comparisons of feature usage between services have suggested that listener-created playlists represent over half of Spotify playlist streams (and 10-30% on the other major services), and if you search for any popular playlist topic you can usually find a few listener-curated playlists with hundreds of thousands of followers. That’s a lot of unmanaged cultural attention, set structurally free by the new powers despite, or perhaps as the price of, their centralized technical control.