make what you want of this. hopefully more details will arrive sooner or later. for his sake and his listeners i hope it's just a mistake by someone in the middle man chain of glad handers.
Ben Jordan's albums, 23 of them, were all deleted from spotify due to an internal investigation that revealed some "fraudulent activity".
here's his twitter post about it but i expect he'll make a video about it eventually.
https://x.com/bennjordan/status/1756870 ... 46722?s=20
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he's made videos about various aspects of spotify's business model, fraud, how money laundering works there etc. he's also praised spotify at times... some of those videos are in this thread already somewhere but just in case... kind of sucks to be at the mercy of them. anyway.. a few of those videos for context.
https://youtu.be/et8R5i5UEjY?si=dzfutQUgJWyNSwM_
https://youtu.be/zk872ERRVxA?si=iDY-pg37n6yexs3g
https://youtu.be/gDfNRWsMRsU?si=L_p7BZ0YonS8KIRt&t=1
edit: so after taking a look around the internet it appears this happens to artists often enough. There’s some scam where people use bots in conjunction with playlists to generate “fake” streams or plays. So even though the artist has no idea theirs songs are part of the playlist they get flagged if/when tunecore/spotify/distrokid take a look at things. I don’t know the details of how this scam works but it appears to be one of many types of scams. There’s some chatter on Benn Jordan’s social media from other artists with similar experiences.
Ben Jordan's albums, 23 of them, were all deleted from spotify due to an internal investigation that revealed some "fraudulent activity".
here's his twitter post about it but i expect he'll make a video about it eventually.
https://x.com/bennjordan/status/1756870 ... 46722?s=20
he's made videos about various aspects of spotify's business model, fraud, how money laundering works there etc. he's also praised spotify at times... some of those videos are in this thread already somewhere but just in case... kind of sucks to be at the mercy of them. anyway.. a few of those videos for context.
https://youtu.be/et8R5i5UEjY?si=dzfutQUgJWyNSwM_
https://youtu.be/zk872ERRVxA?si=iDY-pg37n6yexs3g
https://youtu.be/gDfNRWsMRsU?si=L_p7BZ0YonS8KIRt&t=1
edit: so after taking a look around the internet it appears this happens to artists often enough. There’s some scam where people use bots in conjunction with playlists to generate “fake” streams or plays. So even though the artist has no idea theirs songs are part of the playlist they get flagged if/when tunecore/spotify/distrokid take a look at things. I don’t know the details of how this scam works but it appears to be one of many types of scams. There’s some chatter on Benn Jordan’s social media from other artists with similar experiences.
Statistics: Posted by dayjob — Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:19 am