Why Did Spotify Purge THOUSANDS of Songs From Distrokid?
- January 04, 2021
- By Minx Couture
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Distrokid starting 2021 off with a fake stream purge. 👀
— Noah Miller (@iamnoahmiller) January 2, 2021
Yikes.
Spotify removed music from their own platform for suspected “artificial streams.” Spotify's takedowns affect music from all distributors (not just DistroKid) as you can see from @SpotifyCares tweet below. We can help! 💙 Read more here: https://t.co/ofbLa4oNam 😫❤️❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/ccH9nJGobR
— DistroKid (@DistroKid) January 3, 2021
Not sure what’s going on, but I seen a artist reply somewhere online that stated they were taken down and that they plus other artists they know never used any marketing companies for their music and they only had like 300 streams.
— Jflyymusic (@Jflyymusic1) January 3, 2021
What a mess. But who's to blame? I am in no way shape or form poking fun, accusing artists or putting down artists in this post. However, social media is not responding to these artists that way.
I've seen several posts of "that's what you get for faking your streams." and "Maybe you should stop using bots" but there ARE instances that I have seen on the web of artists who are citing that they didn't even use marketing companies to promote and it was taken down anyway.
Again, BUT WHO'S TO BLAME? My followers know I didn't trust Distrokid from the beginning. There was something wrong with the fact that Spotify had a stake with this distribution service and there is something REALLY WRONG with Spotify being owned by major labels.
According to Digital Music News article they stated that
"Universal owns Digster, Sony owns Filtr, and Warner owns Topsify"
Well, what are these sites?
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Spotify Acquires Stake in Distrokid - Variety |
So they admittedly, they know they aren't collecting all our royalties. We know they don't even plan to teach artists how to collect them.You would think that Distrokid would have this information available as well as options to promote and market properly and to authentic playlist curators.
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