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# The Playlist Ate Music
- URL: https://ozjective.com/the-playlist-ate-music/
- Published: 2025-05-22T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-16T00:45:49.000Z
- Description: Streaming promised every artist a global audience with no gatekeepers. Then the algorithm became the new gatekeeper. How playlists replaced labels.
- Author: Oz Gultekin
- Tags: #note

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