1/7/2024 0 Comments Fake spotify screenshot makerThe streaming giant has of course issued a strong denial to the allegations as reported by Billboard. Perhaps Spotify were hoping that the labels would sleep through this one? This is ultimately very different to the not so strange case of ‘ Robert Galbraith’ and JK Rowling.Įxamples include ‘artists’ such as Deep Watch who appear on the ‘ Ambient Chill’ playlist and Spotify’s ‘ Sleep’ playlist featuring Enno Aare. ![]() So what is the big deal, man? Isn’t this just Spotify taking an inevitable dip into the waters of becoming content creators and owners? Isn’t it just their version of ‘ Netflix Originals’? Or the equivalent of an artist using various pseudonyms to release music however they wish to, al la Aphex Twin? Not exactly- such content on Netflix is clearly labelled and marketed as exclusive content and an incentive to subscribe- Spotify on the other hand is accused of essentially creating ‘ghost’ artists to create tracks to avoid paying various labels and rights owners it has struck deals with- effectively watering down pints, and no-one likes that. This led to allegations that Spotify were effectively trying to game their own royalty system by paying producers a flat fee to create tracks.Īn investigation by Music Business Worldwide, who were in fact onto this last year identified over 50 such artists, many of which originated from Stockholm-based production music company Epidemic Sound. ![]() An argument that has erupted across the industry over the last couple of weeks is Spotify’s apparent use of so-called ‘fake artists’- artists specifically commissioned by Spotify that have no footprint elsewhere, whose tracks appear on Spotify’s first party playlists.
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