Spotify hit with lawsuit claiming billions of Drake's streams came from bots

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Spotify is facing a new class action lawsuit accusing the company of turning a "blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming.” According to Rolling Stone, the filing alleges that Drake has been profiting from “billions” of fake streams as a result. The lawsuit lists rapper RBX as a plaintiff in the case, both individually and "on behalf of other members of the general public similarly situated."

“Every month, under Spotify’s watchful eye, billions of fraudulent streams are generated from fake, illegitimate, and/or illegal methods," the lawsuit alleges, arguing that the situation “causes massive financial harm to legitimate artists, songwriters, producers, and other rightsholders.”

Spotify pays out royalties through a “streamshare” model, in which all streams are grouped together, and then payments are made out by calculating a percentage to determine each artist’s share of those total streams. In turn, the lawsuit argues fake streams would devalue the payout to smaller artists.

Despite claiming the use of bots and fake streams is a prominent issue on the platform, the lawsuit only names Drake specifically. It claims Spotify already “knows or should know” about a substantial amount of information that can prove the Toronto rapper has been profiting from bot accounts; however, he is not listed as a defendant in the case.

Allegedly fraudulent activity took place between January 2022 and September 2025, according to the complaint. It claims an examination of Drake’s streams revealed “abnormal VPN usage” had obscured the location of the bot accounts streaming Drake’s songs. For instance, the lawsuit claims that over a four-day period in 2024, at least 250,000 streams of his song “No Face” originated in Turkey “but were falsely geomapped through the coordinated use of VPNs to the United Kingdom in [an] attempt to obscure their origins.”

The lawsuit also alleges that “a large percentage” of accounts streaming Drake’s music were “geographically concentrated around areas whose population could not support” such a high volume of streams. No exact places or numbers were given, though the suit claimed that some streams reportedly originated in areas with “zero residential addresses.” 

The lawsuit also cites “significant and irregular uptick months” for Drake’s songs long after they’ve been released, as well as “slower and less dramatic” decay rates for Drake’s music compared to his contemporaries. (Decay rate refers to a typical streaming pattern where plays of an album or song naturally dwindle in the weeks and months after release.) 
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Edited 3 hours ago by Teletubby

[Bonkers 29,906]

yes, idibots listen to Drake

[Kayi 2,761]

I never understood the hype arround him tbh 

Plus he's an evil bish 

[MadArchitect 1,223]

mention the redwood tree princess while we are at it too.

Edited 4 hours ago by MadArchitect

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30 minutes ago, MadArchitect said:

mention the redwood tree princess while we are at it too.

If you're talking about taylor I dont think she uses bots when she has die hard stans like swifties tbh

[nodandsmile 10,987]

why solely focusing on Drake... a lot of them cheat!

[Lucas 27,801]

I think RBX is a ghostsuer hired by Taylor Swift, probably very mad that Drake has more streams than her 

[Togekiss 2,539]

Aubrey Graham being a streaming force never made sense to me

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2 hours ago, Teletubby said:

For instance, the lawsuit claims that over a four-day period in 2024, at least 250,000 streams of his song “No Face” originated in Turkey “but were falsely geomapped through the coordinated use of VPNs to the United Kingdom in [an] attempt to obscure their origins.”

 

 

Did they ever think that people in Turkey use VPN because of internet censorship?

Edited 3 hours ago by elsamars

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58 minutes ago, Lucas said:

I think RBX is a ghostsuer hired by Taylor Swift, probably very mad that Drake has more streams than her 

She probably uses the same bot companies as him tbh

She has a large fan base but her numbers are very suspicious too

Edited 2 hours ago by tlittlemonster

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Love the statements without examples/evidence lmao 

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