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The creation of the "Spotify" music platform is explored in the 6-episode limited, dramatic TV series "The Playlist", ow streaming on Netflix:

"...'Spotify' launched in Sweden and became the top music streaming service in the world.

"Now follow a Swedish tech entrepreneur and his partners as they set out to revolutionize the music industry..."

Cast includes Edvin Endre as Spotifys co-founder and CEO 'Daniel Ek' , Christian Hillborg as Ek’s friend and co-founder of Spotify, 'Martin Lorentzon', Gizem Erdogan is ​​lawyer and longtime Spotify employee 'Petra Hansson' and Joel Lützow is Spotify’s 'Andreas Ehn'.

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While they’ve inspired such enjoyable exaggerations as FX’s “Devs” and Apple’s “Mythic Quest,” the inner workings of the real-life tech space have largely been deemed off-limits by producers. A heightened threat of litigation is doubtless one reason; equally, round-the-clock coding rarely makes for the most compelling spectator sport, however pounding the electronica you set it to. Plus, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 feature “The Social Network,” on the turbulent genesis of Facebook, set the bar stratospherically high.

“Wallander” producers Yellow Bird believe they’ve sourced a comparably gripping tale in “The Playlist,” a six-part Netflix miniseries centring on Swedish success story Spotify, the streaming platform that revolutionized music listening while causing understandable conniptions in Neil Young. Dramatizing competing narratives from the pages of Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud’s non-fiction compendium “Spotify Untold,” the show posits that, with this app, much depends on who you’re...

The creation of the "Spotify" music streaming platform is explored in a new 6-episode limited, dramatic TV series titled "The Playlist", premiering October 13, 2022 on Netflix:

"...'Spotify' launched in Sweden and became the top music streaming service in the world.

"Now follow a Swedish tech entrepreneur and his partners as they set out to revolutionize the music industry..."

Cast includes Edvin Endre as Spotifys co-founder and CEO 'Daniel Ek' , Christian Hillborg as Ek’s friend and co-founder of Spotify, 'Martin Lorentzon', Gizem Erdogan is ​​lawyer and longtime Spotify employee 'Petra Hansson' and Joel Lützow is Spotify’s 'Andreas Ehn'.

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"Shut them down or we won't have an industry." Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for the mini-series The Playlist, arriving this October. This is pretty much The Social Network but about the creation of Spotify, following other series recently about tech businesses – from Uber to WeWork. In this hyper-fictionalized account of the true story: led by Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek, a group of passionate young people come together in what seems to be the impossible task to revolutionize the music industry - and the world. They set out to create a legal streaming service for music. The series stars Edvin Endre as Daniel Ek, Ulf Stenberg as Per Sundin, Gizem Erdogan as Petra Hansson, Joel Lützow as Andreas Ehn, Christian Hillborg as Martin Lorentzon, and Janice Kamya Kavander as "Bobbie T". Also with Valter Skarsgård, Amy Deasismont, Hanna Ardéhn, Ella Rappich, Agnes Kittelsen, and Sofia Karemyr. This all looks like extremely exaggerated,...