topic RE: Play Count Decreases in Content Questions

Play Count Decreases

rockmaster43 — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 23:38:57 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Windows Computer

Operating System

Win 10 & Win 7

My Question or Issue

I follow a few songs play count and I noticed large (almost 1 million) decrease from a few days ago till now. The songs is Baby it's cold outside by Dean Martin. A few days ago, it was 66,887,333 and today it was 66,032,819. What causes the big of a change?

Re: Play Count Decreases

Jpgchief — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:18:41 GMT

Hi @rockmaster43 I have never see a case like this before, right now the track is 66,322,545, maybe and just maybe you saw wrong the first time the number? And if isn't the case then let's wait someone give us a better answer.

Cheers!!!

RE: Play Count Decreases

w_-f112cf0cd — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:14:49 GMT

Hi. I just noticed this happened to me as well with my own content and I have screenshots to prove it.

I recently began releasing music and I noticed a song I had just put out a week ago went from around 885 plays to 755 plays.

Today is Friday and my play count is at 755 - on Wednesday of this week I took a screenshot of the play count at 758. On Thursday (yesterday) I noticed the play count at around 855 which is why I was shocked to see the number lower than 2 days ago this morning. Please see screenshot days for evidence.

In summary: my play count today is lower than the number I had in previous dates. Please please please fix and or explain.

Re: RE: Play Count Decreases

Sen_ — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 04:37:04 GMT

I could be confused, but I also noticed that the "streams in the last 7 days" is significantly higher than the total streams, and that this is your latest release. Was it released in the last seven days and that number is the undisguised total potentially? Again, I could be confusing myself, but I just wanted to point this out.

Re: Play Count Decreases

Kbraaten — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 07:54:58 GMT

This is still going on.

My new album hit 95 265 last morning.

A couple of hours later, it was at 93 167.

Still no answer from Spotify?

Re: Play Count Decreases

Tangear — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:18:07 GMT

Same here, 3456 in the morning and 2591 in the evening. Weird.

Re: Play Count Decreases

Kikistar — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:46:22 GMT

This just happened to me! I had 1250 streams and it’s down to 430 .

Re: Play Count Decreases

ItsLaithhhh — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:10:12 GMT

Same happened to me

Re: Play Count Decreases

Ivelina — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:11:36 GMT

Hey @ItsLaithhhh and @Kikistar,

Welcome to the thread!

In the Community, we're more focused on helping with app issues and when it comes to what you're experiencing with the streams, it's something to be looked into by our Spotify for Artists team. With this said, it's best to reach out to their support here.

Should you need assistance with anything else, let us know 🙂

Re: Play Count Decreases

MtAnalogue — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 04:05:07 GMT

The same thing happened to me, and my podcast. I too have screenshots. What is all this?

I saw that spotify quietly stepped away from being IAB compliant. That's about all I could find on the why side of things. Seems sus.

Re: Play Count Decreases

piano_nicolo — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:11:57 GMT

Has anyone figured out why this is happening? This just happened to me...

Re: Play Count Decreases

SteveWolves — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:31:38 GMT

I just noticed that this happened with our newest single was almost up to 2k then yesterday I noticed it was under 1k today it shows 1036!? What gives! Spotify needs to respond this is BS & super shady

https://open.spotify.com/track/74WBF8BUObEJIYZUTPPIwA?si=5przz620RWWCVC05t7CFBw

Re: Play Count Decreases

OT_Gravity — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:10:43 GMT

It's happening to me as well. My track got 11K streams, but when I search it under the "all time" category it still says it's under 1K

play count for song is down from yesterday's value

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 01:36:09 GMT

been tracking number of plays for over 3 years but the number today is down from yesterday and in fact lower than its been in about 2 weeks. I would have thought that this was fully automated and no human transcription errors. I have looked at screenshots so I know it's not me being careless

Re: play count for song is down from yesterday's value

dogdays11232 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:32:39 GMT

i have seen more than 10k plays lost on two tracks. it's pretty shitty considered how low the .003 pay rate is. it's actually criminal.

Re: Spotify Reset Public Stream Number?

K-Caoz — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:05:14 GMT

Same here with my latest release

Re: Play Count Decreases

K-Caoz — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:25:53 GMT

The Support told me they check the streams and there where "fake stream", I don´t get it we spend a lot of money on marketing ad campaings social media as well pitches on groover, submithub and feature.fm

This buisness is f.... up

Re: Play Count Decreases

_0x-73jv3et5g — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:17:11 GMT

It’s just happened to me as well, and**bleep** on the ‘fake streams’ if I was going to buy them I’d buy a lot more than 35.