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Fake songs for a verified artist

tandvärk — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:15:50 GMT

Lately I’ve been getting notifications and I’m app notifications about some new songs from one of the artists I follow (artist: Revenge, which is a verified artist https://open.spotify.com/artist/50U1jrMV6FoddCGhjovDpG?si=utUjvmPmS1WNBvwf5zzQ7Q)

The new singles have been many, all of them containing 1 song that’s just 1 minute long.
Some examples:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2AcMOxwtYUsUDKi58IzA3N?si=gAsd4TEISuSzzm8NRUbsGQ

https://open.spotify.com/album/6mX7hXwiX4Z85bWQl5I4Kr?si=BLCNV8ZgQISn4gdk5cFnlg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4hbTYmFOlWxBq4V8VTD9ka?si=UU_QZIdWQiCamCPesQIYvA

plus 5 more. Please fix this Spotify.

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

Maria — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:00:42 GMT

Hey @tandvärk,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

We've passed this on to the right team. While we can't give you a specific timeframe, the team will have a closer look at the tracks you sent over.

Should you come across any other tracks which seems to be under the wrong artist profile, you can also report them by following the steps under 2. Inaccurate metadata or faulty audio in this FAQ.

The Community is here for you, if anything else pops up!

Cheers.

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

tandvärk — Fri, 23 May 2025 17:39:09 GMT

Thanks! I saw that the songs got removed.
I tried the solution you gave but that chat bot were to no help.

This fake artist just released ANOTHER fake song: https://open.spotify.com/album/01RFFBx38TcT8qIvUr6Gem?si=7LyBT6KeRH252vqBKUrAMg

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

Ivelina — Mon, 26 May 2025 12:22:25 GMT

Hey again @tandvärk and thank you for getting back to us.

Could you let us know what happened when you got to the chat bot? Maybe there's something we could help with here.

When it comes to the content that you reported in the thread, we hear you and we've passed this on to the Content team. If they agree, it'll be fixed as soon as possible, but keep in mind that this could take several weeks.

We really appreciate you getting in touch to help make Spotify better and we're here if you need assistance with anything else.

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

Floppleton — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:38:47 GMT

Hi! I just want to follow up on this, because this has been a major problem with Release Radar for about the past year and I've been trying to find a way to report it. Attached is a screenshot of my Release Radar this week, all three of the greyed out songs are obvious impersonations, none of the second artists listed have announced releasing music, the songs are a completely different style, and the album art is clearly AI-generated. This has been a problem for a while, but it's been getting a lot worse the past month-ish.

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

Yordan — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:54:13 GMT

Thanks for joining the thread, @Floppleton!

We've gone ahead and forwarded this to the attention of our internal teams who'll look further into it 👍

Cheers!

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

Floppleton — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:29:43 GMT

Hi again! Just want to raise that the same thing happened with the same bands in Release Radar again this week. These fake bands are using known names to farm compensation from Spotify using Release Radar to get their music in front of listeners.

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

Floppleton — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:39:39 GMT

Hi again! There's been a few weeks without them, but it's happening again with some of the same artists:

Again, I'm very confident these are fake because the real artists are not announcing new music on their social media.

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

bruceup — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:07:28 GMT

I had the same thing happen with a verified artist of ours (Amanda Upchurch) who has a popular holiday song, these fakes are all about a minute long and supposedly written by a Juli Pliner. Please take them down.

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

Vasil — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:02:08 GMT

Hey @bruceup,

Thank you for alerting us of this. We have reported the situation backstage and our folks will look into it 🙂
All the best!

Re: Fake songs for a verified artist

Lauren_Bousfield — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:38:11 GMT

This just happened to me as well! This is the EP that was uploaded by the same person, Juli Pliner, impersonating me. https://open.spotify.com/album/7hl5qo2wdzcXcOWSlVHvPb?si=rpq82SqLSOybBPXw9GO1eA This is the album that was uploaded under my account. Please take this EP down.