The Playlist

- Season 1

(2022)

After achieving an audacious startup goal, self-taught coder Daniel Ek takes on the challenge of solving the music industry's piracy issue.

When the music industry find itself in a copyright battle against Pirate Bay, music label head Per Sundin realizes that the war against piracy might be more complicated that he thought.

A promising young lawyer leaves her job at a top law firm to tackle Spotify's complex legal issues and confront the major labels.

Sick of his dead-end job, a gifted programmer sharing Daniel's vision of access and independence joins the team to solve their technical challenges.

The eccentric entrepreneur and co-founder of Spotify, Martin Lorentzon, looks back on the first five years of "bankrolling Daniel's mistakes."

Arguing that Spotify's business model exploits artists, musician Bobbi T faces Daniel Ek in a congressional hearing that could destroy his company.