Music made popular by algorithms

Inspired by this article
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/11/how-old-ambient-japanese-music-became-a-smash-hit-on-youtube/

I actually like a lot of the music featured in that article.

There was this article too: https://www.stereogum.com/2105993/pavement-harness-your-hopes-spotify/columns/sounding-board/

Spotify's algorithm doesn't seem as good.

Songs that became famous because of a system glitch