So, yes, that's called fraud. It's a crime. We have laws. People are victims all of the time. What do you suggest that Ben does? He can sell physical media if he likes, everyone can.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.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater won't work. It will just be you. Spotify will survive without small artists, like it or not. So I do think that people should publicize this sort of thing so that there is more pressure on Spotify to resolve this in a more reasonable way. For example, you know where the plays are coming from, why not kill those listening accounts? Or, simply count up the fraudulent listens and not include those in the calculations?
Statistics: Posted by ghettosynth — Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:08 am