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Between 2017 and 2022, the "fake artists" allegations died down, often giving way to other controversies suffered by Spotify, such as their 2019 deal with Joe Rogan. [2] In 2022, however, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter discovered that approximately 20 musicians had been producing tracks for over 500 fabricated names on Spotify and named the production company Firefly Entertainment as a ...
DistroKid, formerly titled Fandalism, [3] is an American independent digital music distribution service, founded in 2012 by American entrepreneur Philip J. Kaplan.DistroKid principally offers musicians and other rights-holders the opportunity to distribute and sell or stream their music through online retailers such as Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube Music, among others.
South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history. [1] The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist, [2] and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.
UPDATED: Spotify has made an official statement denying Drake’s claims in a legal filing last month that the streaming numbers for Kendrick Lamar’s song “Not Like Us,” which took powerful ...
UPDATED: Spotify was hit with a cease-and-desist letter from the National Music Publishers Assn. over its use of lyrics in its recently launched video function and podcasts, and its remix feature ...
Taylor Swift took the top spot as Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2023 with 26.1 billion global streams. Set to the tune of “Cruel Summer,” a new one-minute video inundated with fan ...
Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
The action is doubly surprising because UMG distributes both artists’ recordings. In … Drake Claims Universal Music and Spotify ‘Artificially Inflated’ Kendrick Lamar’s Numbers for ...