Inside a Spotify Artificial Streaming Report

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Ben benieuwd wat er gebeurt
Als de artiesten eindelijk
Stoppen met Spotify
Ben benieuwd wat er gebeurt
Als Spotify failliet gaat wat mensen dan gaan doen
Ben benieuwd wat er gebeurt
Spotify beslist uit hun zelf om te stoppen ben benieuwd of er ooit een rechtszaak komt tegen Spotify

Ik heb geen Spotify
Ook nooit gehad door mij, maar
Mooie cd’s mooie fotoboekjes
In de cd albums en beter geluid kwaliteit en die liedjes kunnen niet verwijderd worden omdat ze niet iemand anders eraf kan halen. Dat kan met Spotify en met YouTube wel liedjes verwijderen je hebt ook auteurs rechten ha ha

Please, cancel Spotify, they steal from independent artists.

I've looped some of my songs on Spotify to see the listening now numbers move up. I was under the assumption that Spotify didn't count my streams but just the streams by new listeners who see my songs under now playing. Maybe I am not supposed to do this?

I received a warning notification from my distributor that one of my songs would be removed from Spotify because of artificial streaming. This was very strange because I have never used paid marketing services or botted playlists. I believe that I have been the target of an artificial stream strike etc which I've heard from other artists. My distributor support strongly advised me to contact Spotify to stop this. When I finally contacted Spotify support, they blamed me for this and gave me this copy-pasted information that I shouldn't use paid marketing services or artificial stream playlist even though I've never used one! And when I asked them if my music is still in these kinds of playlists and asked for help to remove them to prevent further problems after a couple minutes of conversation they just suddenly without warning cut off the whole conversation by closing the chat leaving me without any answers or any support. In my experience Spotify are not interested in helping artists when they need help but instead automatically consider artists criminals and guilty even though these stream strikes happen to hundreds of artists. When I posted this same comment on Spotify's Artificial Streaming video they deleted it :D

Spotify charges for every stream that hits a certain amount of "artificial streaming" numbers. The distributor is charged by Spotify and this charge is forwarded to the client, e.g. the band or label. We got several of those reports lately and all of them are not caused by any activities from our or the bands side. There is no way we can be held accountable to any artificial streaming neither we or the band is responsible for. This is illegal and should not be allowed. It's a problem of Spotify and they should solve this. Unfortunately more than 75% or all streaming income comes from Spotify for most artists. But i think it's time to stand up, move away from Spotify and promote other platforms. This is a hard way to go, also for our company, since we have about 1000 album, ep and single releases online.

I’ve been affected by this twice. i’ve uploaded a track called wonder which was on Spotify and I was using the wheel of playlist I don’t received a notice that I’ve been using artificial streaming in which I stopped using a wheel of playlist after learning that wheel of playlist can contain bots two days later I received a notification from my email account saying that it’s been removed off of the platform and I decided to re-upload it using the same ISRC when I re-uploaded it, it got removed a second time this time I didn’t use wheel of playlist whatsoever. I just thought I’d come forward and say this as an independent artist because i’m really getting worried you know

Another thing I’d like to add is that I’ve removed my latest track “dream about you“ off of Playlist Spotlight, and the reason for that is because I fear that Spotify might one day pressure distrokid to replace the user friendly online contest with bots to trick us into artificial streaming for better competition for the major labels. i’m talking the same labels that Taylor Swift sued the same labels that Martin Garrix sued the same labels that screwed the NWA and Cube, Queen, my idol Avicii, etc., and etc. and etc.

FUCK SPOTIFY!!!

We had a song that we didn’t even promote have a huge spike in streams. We found and reported the relevant playlist to both Spotify and our distributor. Three months later the song was taken down. Ironically the playlist is still not taken down. So the loser here is our artist who did nothing wrong!

I did a video about this, happened to me. I saw the fake streams, reported the playlist, they said they would investigate - 3 months later, my music removed, botted playlist still live!

1 songs/1-2 location/1-2 listener . Do it potential fake streaming? (120 time of 1 songs and only that songs). Please reply me soon...

Hey Andrew, curious about how Melodist responds to artificial streaming reports? I've been falsely flagged twice now (never paid for streams, no spikes in my data, streams mostly from Radio) on DistroKid, and there's really nothing you can say that will make them change their mind. I'm considering switching to Too Lost as I've heard they handle these situations better, but first wanted to see how Melodist would compare. Thanks Andrew! 🙌

I’m fighting this rn with 3 eps i’ve had up for 8 years. It’s breaking my heart and it’s like screaming into a void. The CEO of Spotify is worth $4.8 billion. More than Taylor Swift. It’s all about scummy excuses to not pay smaller hardworking artists. Fuck spotify. Being a musician is already hard enough. We’re not even given the dignity of what should be a basic reliable platform for our work.

Botted three times in as many months had an entire album pulled for 500 fake streams on the song. Get it reinstated and boom, two weeks later, same song botted again. So next thing I know I am fined twice for those two times. Then another song gets botted and now I am still in limbo waiting for my punishment for the third time. I did report the playlists, but they still don't care. And there was 9,999 songs on each one. I doubt they get that number of people even buying streams in one week. However, it is not illegal to sell fake streams and why Spotify can't do anything. The only solution is to cut off all the free accounts because that is what they need to do it. But they won't because they are earning too much from the ads running on them and fining indies

i hate spotify wish their was other ways to get the music on there