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The Quiet Death of Playlist Chasing

audience… For the better part of the last decade, independent musicians have participated in one of the strangest rituals in modern music marketing. We make a record, spend months or years getting it right, release it into the world and then immediately begin begging strangers […]

The Quiet Death of Playlist Chasing

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audience… For the better part of the last decade, independent musicians have participated in one of the strangest rituals in modern music marketing.

We make a record, spend months or years getting it right, release it into the world and then immediately begin begging strangers […]

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audience… For the better part of the last decade, independent musicians have participated in one of the strangest rituals in modern music marketing. We make a record, spend months or years getting it right, release it into the world and then immediately begin begging strangers […]

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