Same song with multiple names/artists, music spam?

[joelalmeidaptg]

Hello.

I consider myself a heavy music listener and I remember most of the songs I like and keep a big playlist with an history of all the music I like on the platform.

Today I was going through my Discover Weekly playlist and I started listening to a song that I knew the lyrics for and I absolutely had heard it plenty of times before. However when looking at the name of the song, artist and cover (Witnesses by Genesis Sparta) I couldn't recognize any of them, which is very strange.

I then tried to identify the song using Shazam and guess what, Shazam identified the song as being another one: Nature Purple by Sensitive Kratos. I again have never seen the cover of this song or heard about its name or artist.

I went ahead and played the song identified and guess what, it is exactly the same as the one on my Discover Weekly playlist. It even has the exact same length, 2:22 minutes.

I checked both artists and both only have one song, released 1 Sep 2019. I googled them and the internet doesn't seem to know anything about them.

I am 100% sure I didn't hear this song first from one of these artists or with any of these names so there are already at least 3 copies of the same song on the platform (I couldn't find the other in my history playlist yet). Is this some form of spam? Can someone look into it?

[Petya · Accepted solution]

Hey there @joelalmeidaptg,

Thanks for letting us know about this! 

We can confirm we have passed this information on to the right team so they can take a closer look and take care of this. We appreciate your passion for music and that yous pend the time to describe what you've spotted so well.

Feel free to reach out to us whenever you have Spotify-related questions or need a helping hand with the app.

Have a good day!

[Pejotl77]

I am experiencing the same issue.

I am using Spotify MOSTLY due to amazing Discover Weekly feature. However the last few lists were literally spammed by fake songs. These are very similar songs, which last about 0:58, and the author is a fake person, having 3 similar songs, with no description. I will give you a few examples from my current Discover Weekly, but if you would check my account you would find at least 20 such songs which I am constantly marking as: "I don't like it" but they are comming back.

I am convinced that some BOT is spamming your service. I guess there is a lot of similar songs created from some fake accounts. 

Please get rid of this. 

https://open.spotify.com/track/7fypZUaroLTSRzmZJ8R1kY?si=0bdbe0e667b84d92

https://open.spotify.com/track/4fWw4zKbNFjb0vhuI42l46?si=aebfb2705d134294

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Vl96agC8vtDQk1QXecUT5?si=fe2d501c43bf4d60

https://open.spotify.com/track/378qztzIfoAegucMs0VW5L?si=2fb8065e12434673

[Eni]

Hey there @Pejotl77,

Thanks for getting in touch about this and welcome to the Community.

In this case, we suggest that you report this to our Content team directly. You can do this following the instructions for Broken or Incorrect content here.

If you need a hand with anything else, the Community is here for you.

[sn0opy]

For several weeks if not even months I am getting the same song with different titles and from different artists into my Discoer Weekly playlist. The dislike button does not seem to have any function. Neither for these songs, nor for the playlist in general since the same songs and songs of other genres that I don't want to hear re-appear over and over.

The following songs appeared in my Discover Weekly. Sometimes even multiple of them. Some of the linked songs are just some sort of variations but one can clearly hear the similarity. Heck, even the "song radio" algorithm knows, that these songs are similar ...

This is obviously just some scheme to generate revenue by flooding Spotify with the same low-effort song. 

Am I the only one who has noticed that? Why is this still a thing after several months?

- https://open.spotify.com/track/4bITGAOvG6yZM5U6absNGN

- https://open.spotify.com/track/1IB39bZLNFef6JN5l1eTOL

- https://open.spotify.com/track/1IB39bZLNFef6JN5l1eTOL

- https://open.spotify.com/track/63mq6HKwoHotk030xFPTfq

- https://open.spotify.com/track/5XB7HBvQD07urrMMrD0A1u

- https://open.spotify.com/track/2ovHKYFW6ADUARTA1NFTwE

- https://open.spotify.com/track/5dJS1221AhAkuZoIi5ehs1

- https://open.spotify.com/track/1QSyZMDBbO9huegoZ3sVVm

- https://open.spotify.com/track/3Pj8CqbpujMeFegYiCNZ5U

- https://open.spotify.com/track/2vjwczm60mXUG2NcI1xoEJ

- https://open.spotify.com/track/4lwas7n37esIrAcg1BrPXL

- https://open.spotify.com/track/5dJS1221AhAkuZoIi5ehs1

- https://open.spotify.com/track/0erFtU1TinR9nw9jCefBoH

- https://open.spotify.com/track/3Pj8CqbpujMeFegYiCNZ5U

[Maria]

Hey @sn0opy,

Thanks for raising this on the Community!

We recommend that you head over to this page and follow the steps there to report the tracks. While we can't give you an exact time frame for when it'll be looked into, this will get your report to the right folks so that they can have a closer look.

Let us know if you need anything else. Cheers!