Post by @OutOnTheMoors@beige.party

2026-04-26 12:42 UTC

I&#39;ve been rather quiet on my chart-rigging investigation, but that&#39;s because I&#39;ve moved into exploring the actual nuts and bolts of how it all works. This recent piece in Wired, though, shows how the problem is slowly being exposed. https://www.wired.com/story/geese-chaotic-good-marketing-industry-plant/

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@cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-26 14:01

@OutOnTheMoors@beige.party the math to make it big, reminds me of KONGOS. By the time one wondered how "Come With Me Now" got stuck in their head, they were on their way to see them at a local festival. Then there's the designer hit manufacturers, reducing popular music to an equation to pump out fast success with catchy tunes: Shiny Toy Guns, Wolfmother. Remove sincerity from art and it's nothing but formulaic fodder.

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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online 2026-04-29 00:30

@OutOnTheMoors@beige.party Wow. Payola has nothing on these guys! "Essentially, the firm creates networks of social media pages (typically on TikTok) and uses them to drive the band’s music into the recommendation algorithm. Songs are dropped into the backgrounds of videos. Live clips are shared. Sometimes, burner accounts, comments, and whole ecosystems of interactions can be fabricated out of digital cloth, stoking—and in some cases, completely manufacturing—discourse around an artist." -more-

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