Nuance Required

Nuance Required

Why I Quit Spotify and Maybe You Should Too

On boycotting, collective inertia, and weaponized passivity

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Brooke Bowlin
Dec 08, 2025
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We’ve just emerged from Spotify Wrapped release week. For those enjoying a relatively offline life, this is when music streaming company Spotify packages and presents listener data in a custom1 report of each user’s top songs and artists of the year. This results in a week of everyone sharing screenshots of their music tastes online, an interesting bandw…

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