{"product_id":"mood-machine-book-liz-pelly-9781668083505","title":"Mood Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of a Certificate of Merit from the 2025 ARSC Awards for Excellence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (London), and \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2025\u003cbr\u003e A 2025 \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn NPR Books We Love Most pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn unsparing investigation into Spotify's origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, \u003ci\u003eMood Machine\u003c\/i\u003e takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock music and the rise of new payola-like practices.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music and create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, \u003ci\u003eMood Machine\u003c\/i\u003e will change the way you think about and listen to music.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51045620613393,"sku":"NIN9781668083505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51158209331473,"sku":"CIN1668083507VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333968757009,"sku":"CIN1668083507G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52902328238353,"sku":"CIN1668083507LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1668083507.jpg?v=1751025507","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/mood-machine-book-liz-pelly-9781668083505","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}