Create an option to report fake artist pushing generated content

[kweij]

Spotify is being besieged by one or more bots that push generated content (music, artists, albums) to create reveneu. This garbage will show on the Release Radar by hitchhiking on a genre, but does not match listener taste profile. It pushes actual artists from the stage just because they found a way to abuse the Spotify system.

For a listener there is no place to report this abuse. None of the reporting options suffice to report this kind of abuse.

Personally, this means that my Release Radar - a playlist that I used to look forward to - is now filled for half by one and the same bot, the same garbage generated tunes, the same <2 minute crappy songs. Here is the playlistlist, and I will keep adding it to show the impact that this abuse of the Spotify system allows for:

Please help me, make the playlists created by Spotify great again, they were awesome and The Algorithm used to do a great job at curating good music. But with this load of manure and the pushing of short tracks in favor of the length I actually listen to - your playlist now kind of suck.

[Luan]

Updated on 2023-09-30

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[kweij]

And another thing ..

Now that I _have_**bleep**-list with all these generated, system-abusing tracks EXCLUDED from my taste profile. Every next week I get some of the exact same tracks in my Discover Weekly. How the boink could this happen if I explicitly EXCLUDED these tracks from my taste profile. How much clearer can I be?

Spotify, you're on a very fast downward spiral. I used to like you, but you don't treat my like you used to do. I guess I'm going to have to let you go.

[Rossyp]

Yep, I am having the same problem, my release radar is being filled by these scam songs all with similar album covers. I don't understand why they are coming up on my release radar as I am quite positive there is nothing by these "artists" I have ever listened to. For now I am just using the hide artist option but these reccomendations keep coming back via different names.

[Mauriciomira]

This is unacceptable indeed, I am waiting for this option to be available as well. 

[mxq]

Same problem in my discover weekly +80% are those scam „artist”

[B_LETT]

Consistently, artists are releasing music that are deceptive, with fake credits attached. Larger, more well-known artists are insinuated by being listed in the associated artists on a song. This allows scam/fake accounts to consistently breach into everyone's Release Radar algorithms.

I already think the algorithms should have better filters to prevent these fake collaborations from coming into our feeds, but there isn't a current dropdown under Reporting an artist that has anything to do with actual song content.

When you choose to report an artist, and you choose the option "Deceptive content", the only dropdowns tie to text, images, or merchandise; be it something in an Artist's Bio Text, Artist Profile Image, Artist Banner Image, Artist Gallery Image, Artist Merchandise, the "Artist's Pick" Text, etc. There's not a single option about the music itself.

This is a music platform, and the most important thing for us to report as deceptive is the music itself. Please add a report dropdown under deceptive content to give us an option when reporting artists that points to them putting up deceptive music.

This has been a known issue with people slipping deceitful music past distribution, and we as end users have no real way to filter this out or even report this accurately for your team to more efficiently handle. It'd be nice to at least give a dropdown option for us to help us help you.

[Hordo]

This is so freaking annoying, why can't we report these a-holes?
Has been going on for MONTHS! Ruins the whole experience. 

'Artists'  like A

At the start I thought Spotify would take action and gives us some options to report, but nope.

As soon as a new artist, that exists for 1 day, on a record label that does not exists, makes a track with an artist that has 2 billion streams, you now something is up and it should not turn up on my playlist. We can't even remove it from the 'Release radar'.

Thanks!!!

[kevymiikes]

So I saw someone already suggested reporting fake bots and their "songs" that show up in playlists like Release Radar, but my suggestion is a bit more nuanced.  I'd like the ability to report songs from people who tag other well-known artists in their music when they know damn well that person ISN'T on their record, lol.  How do they even get away w/ it in the first place?!  Case in point, I just got duped into thinking Normani released a new single (anxiously awaiting Dopamine btw 🚀) this week but it was just some scam artist using her name for clout!  Not cool "Vincent Wyse", not cool at all.

[Carmileon]

I think that in the section to report an artist, there should be an option to Report 'stolen content'. Among the only available options, there's one about reporting someone stealing 'my' content, but I wished that there was an option to report than an artist has stolen content from another one. That way, the report form should have slots to fill with the name of the original artist, the name of the song/album that was stolen, and the name of the artist who stole it.