‘The playlist’: the Netflix series that tells the story of Spotify

Today it is perfectly normal to go out on the street and be able to choose any song imaginable at any time. One of the causes of this sonic revolution was Spotifystarted in 2006 with two Swedish entrepreneurs, who came up with the idea of ​​an application that it would change the rules of music distributionmaking it consumable for the entire planet.

Now Netflix has set its sights on this story, with the series “The playlist”, continuing his quest to portray true stories such as the “Dahmer” or “The Great Flood” series. In this new series, he portrays how this idea started that revolutionized our relationship with music, since no one would have imagined that it was possible to access so much music from a mobile phone.

What is the story told by ‘The Playlist’?

In this series, Netflix takes the first steps of two Swedish entrepreneurs, Daniel Eck and Martin Lorentzon, who decided to turn the music industry upside down. They did this by convincing all the record labels that if something wasn’t done soon, piracy would put an end to all livelihood options.

It should be remembered that during the 2000s they illegally downloaded applications such as napster, which monopolizes more and more power in music consumption. So in 2008 came the first version of Spotify, two years after Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon started the project, and it was only available in five European countries.

Today the application is available in 187 countries, with 30 million songs commercially published. Form a catalog that meets the general demand of most users, as it has pretty much everything from the most current hits, to hits from many parts of the world from the 80s, 70s, 60s and more.

This new Netflix series is based on the book titled “Spotify Untold” (“Spotify without counting”) written by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud, has already ended up being a hit in Sweden, as it is now one of its national highlights, but has also managed to garner excellent reviews around the world.

The series is directed by Hallgrim Haug and Per-Olav Sørensen, with Gizem Erdogan, Christian Hillborg, Edvin Endre, Severija Janusauskaite, Ella Rappich, Ulf Stenberg, Joel Lützow, Lucas Serby, Sofia Karemyr, Valter Skarsgård, Fredrik Wagner., Patrick Baladi. , Sam Hazeldine. Being a Yellow Bird Films production for Netflix.

Specialist critics agree that this is a series with a very good setting and that it focuses on faithfully reproducing what the creation process of the company was like, the problems that its creators had to face and the success it had. has had in recent years. The series premiered October 13, 2022 on Netflix.