topic Re: Fake Albums in Content Questions

Fake Albums

gillnana — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 02:21:58 GMT

I've come across two pretty strange things recently. First, this album appears to be fake:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0716WsQpW9KFeks5XoEHMp

Searching google doesn't yield any results except for a few different streaming services providng this one album -- it's clearly not a real person. The cover is also a stock photo: http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Shoes-Girl-Grand-Piano-Piano-Picture-711087.

The second one is this album:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4fY9l0wspWg0BuzU4wZsMk

Can somebody look into these?

Thanks!

Jack

Re: Fake Albums

Maxim — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:42:00 GMT

Hey @gillnana,

Thanks for posting in the Spotify Community.

Can you please post the Spotify URI (not the link) of it?

Thanks 🙂

Re: Fake Albums

gillnana — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:30:45 GMT

1) spotify:album:4fY9l0wspWg0BuzU4wZsMk

2) spotify:album:0716WsQpW9KFeks5XoEHMp

Re: Fake Albums

jean3601 — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 01:03:14 GMT

Hey there @gillnana

Just took a look at these two albums, the one by one (By Amy Isla) seems to be okay, it's a cover by the artist, she does exist 🙂

The second one seems you are correct, there is no album with that name! I'll be sure to pass this on to Spotify! 🙂

Thank you for your feedback! Spotify really appreciates it 🙂

Have an awesome day!

Re: Fake Albums

gillnana — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 01:03:59 GMT

Thanks for your reply -- when you said she exists, where are you getting your information from? I can't find any reference to her and the album cover is a stock photo.

Re: Fake Albums

jean3601 — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 01:12:14 GMT

@gillnana

Well, she has a Tumblr page, twitter page, Facebook page and several other Social Media accounts 🙂

The stock photo could be that she bought the rights for it so she could place it on the album she wanted it on 🙂

Re: Fake Albums

gillnana — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 01:13:34 GMT

I searched but I can't find any of the pages you're talking about. Can you link to them?

Thanks

Re: Fake Albums

jean3601 — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 01:15:59 GMT

@gillnana

I don't think it would be appropriate for me to share other people's social media accounts here 🙂

But all I did was google her name and the results appeared 🙂