Is Spotify Creating Fake Artists?
Fake news out, fake artists in!
Since media companies are accused; and in some point caught reporting fake news to boost ratings and revenues, it is not really surprising to me that another Big company is accused of creating fake artists for millions of its listeners.
Music Business Worldwide accused Spotify of making its own records, paying producers a flat fee and release it on their streaming platform under fake artist names.
"Deep Watch" for example, is an artist who racked up 4.5M plays and yet they don't have any biographical detail on the site and without any concerts listed anywhere!
"Enno Aare" is another unknown artist outside Spotify but has four songs with 17M plays and could be found in "Sleep", "Peaceful Piano", and other Spotify-curated playlists.
And why would Spotify do that?
Profit!
Spotify could be earning more from commissions under fake names than its standard deals with record labels.
Even a reduction of a cent per play would save Spotify more than $200,000 regarding the two artists identified above.
Not surprisingly, Spotify denies the allegations.
"We do not and have never created 'fake' artists and put them on Spotify playlists," a Spotify spokesperson told Engadget in response to the latest Music Business Worldwide rebuttal. "We do not own any rights to songs. We license all music on Spotify and pay royalties to rights holders."
Fake artists or not, real people have work hard for those super awesome yet somehow tainted songs and Spotify should pay them what they really deserve.
And of course, artists and musicians should know their real worth.
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Para din lang Pinas. Yung may pera would take advantage of those in dire need of the money so babaratin kasi they know the other party would most likely bite the bait kahit na super unfair yung terms. Saklap.
Oo nga. It is happening everywhere. :(
Kala ko only in the Philippines lang nangyayari yan...lol..anyways upvoted, resteem and followed you😀
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