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Fake spam releases in release radar

To0sh — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:01:31 GMT

Hey!

I faced an issue.
Spam releases have reached a new level.
Now they are masking as your artists and pasting their music. It affected mostly metal and metalcore bands. I asked my relatives and I'm the only one who's having this issue. Any ideas or maybe has the same problem?

Report music added in the name of artist

rilefay — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:10:53 GMT

Today I realized in "News" list that some songs assigned to my favourite artists are not from them with same cover image. I attach the examples

Re: Report music added in the name of artist

Pastafarian10 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:41:31 GMT

can confirm, there is even more artists:

ERRA, Northlane, Make them Suffer, Fit for a King, The **bleep** wears Prada, While she sleeps, Caliban, Our Mirage.

most of them share the same "album picture". definetely something spotify should investigate

Re: Report music added in the name of artist

Pastafarian10 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:45:24 GMT

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

Kyriens — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:22:26 GMT

You are not alone in this.
All form of metal and core it seems

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

MattyEngage7 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:41:18 GMT

I got a load as well, not first time some faker has used an artist name but has been a while, but this is the most I've seen

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

Justice91 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:31:45 GMT

Same problem here

AI generated music being posted under official artists

MEGAFOOL — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:03:14 GMT

This is a fake AI generated song that has been posted as being released by Fit for an Autopsy. I understand AI music being released as new fake artists, but the fact this was released with the official artist tag is concerning

https://open.spotify.com/track/3ses04QoZfQ218OsV0GERT?si=N7C6KQ_fQ06mwfJeGGoNZQ

Here's a playlist with more affected artists

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2OWzJBLpbvwhxVQfgN8auk?si=kucJ7Cq-T_SK-PNP_mV-HA

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

santekiv — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:04:40 GMT

Yesterday I woke up to 6 spam songs, today there was 19 more 😣

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

Dmitry_S — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:15:17 GMT

@spotify

Do something about it...

Re: AI generated music being posted under official artists

allgonegrey — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:37:32 GMT

Wild that Spotify has nothing in place to prevent this from happening. These are not small artists being affected.

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

Bizcutz — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:07:24 GMT

Yup fake garbage spam in my feed as well from a bunch of metal bands. Hopefully spotify can find some way to prevent this cuz this is annoying

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

alxndrunttld — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:51:32 GMT

I faced this today. They all have the same source: VibraTech Musicions

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

OscarDC — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:27:53 GMT

Hey everyone!

Thank you for your messages reporting this.

We appreciate all the info, screenshots and videos you have included in your previous posts. In order to send all the relevant details to the relevant teams and continue investigating this, would you mind including the link/URI to take a better look?

Also, since @alxndrunttld mentioned it could be related with VibraTech Musicions, could anyone else check if all the affected releases are from the same source?

Lastly, would you mind confirming if those releases are located on the What's new section or in your Release radars as well?

We'll be on the lookout.

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

alxndrunttld — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:16:30 GMT

Today I checked the “What’s New” section and the Release Radar, and there were no signs of AI-generated music 🙂

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

MEGAFOOL — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 05:39:23 GMT

Can we please get an update regarding what action was taken, and measures being implemented to prevent this from happening in the future ?

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

GreenTeaIceCream — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:38:02 GMT

There's now albums being posted by Annie and Clinic which are also fake. Label called Ancient Lakes. Spotify really don't care how much artists get gouged so long as they can meep the micropayments rolling in, do they?

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

Thevision87 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:59:46 GMT

Dude, why is no one making an issue of this? Its going to add up, and will destroy the platform? Thats why im here, and ive been in the communities who are doing this, just mass uploads, and the distributors allow it!? No ones going to subscribe if its all this low effort **bleep** they can go make themselves. I even tried speaking to them in their reddit, its all little kids, of course calling me a boomer (27 years old) who sucks at music, **bleep** like that. Theres a new version coming, and its all this platform will be, and all anyone will bother doing.

Re: Report music added in the name of artist

Thevision87 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:00:34 GMT

bro i have found hundreds. Messaged support, they acted interested got my links, and never heard back

Re: Fake spam releases in release radar

Thevision87 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:09:03 GMT

Hey man i just made an account to come on here about this, its bad. Not the same source, there are not only videos on youtube on how to mass distribute to try and turn a profit, but very large communties, doing this night and day. Ive reached out to distributors, and they say its completely ok to do, as much as you want... You have to see this will destroy spotify, right? Unfortunatly im in the middle, i beleive in AI as a tool, but not copy paste, low effort garbage. These kids are ruining it for for both parties. If you want to find hundreds. check out reddit - suno , reddit music promotion - facebook, any music promotion. Youll begin to be able to notice immediately. Its art, you cant fake it. I even tried to go on and say "hey guys, you need to be more responsible with this, your oging to destroy some large companies or damage them, so you can play musician" but they dont care, it was kids, apparently 27 is a boomer... Once this is all used up they will just move on to the next thing