Stop Playlist Scams

[ASouthworth]

There is a widespread Spotify playlist scam that has been running for at least a year, and i've seen it result in artists getting their music pulled from the platform when they've done nothing wrong. 

Basically the scam is a playlist company will add songs by 2,000 artists per day to their playlist, pumps bots to all the songs on it (maybe even some followers) hoping the artist will see the spike in streams and check it out in Spotify for Artists. The playlist has contact information or a website link on it, and they're hoping someone falls for it and hires them for more fake promo.

The playlist company is adding songs without the artists permission, and sometimes artists get banned even though they never initiated this.

Here are some ideas for how Spotify can fix this problem:

1. Make it impossible to put URL's or email addresses in the playlist descriptions
2. Provide some option for artists to report the playlists and have their songs removed from the playlist
3. Create better detection algorithms that punish the playlist creator and not the artists on the playlists
4. Switch to a user centric payment model that makes bots non-viable
5. Impose limits on the Spotify API that make it costly for bad actors to scale these types of bot attacks

[erikstearns]

I am, but it's very hard. That's just a straw that is breaking this camel's back.

[erikstearns]

It's another example of how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

[erikstearns]

Yeah. They do no proper investigation at all. It's all arbitrary. I'm
just waiting for the time when they can start accusing us of criminal stuff
without any proof. It's about to happen. Watch.

[NotD]

Total ‘suckiness!’
😖😡

[erikstearns]

Yes. Very sad. It seems to be the norm in the world today.

[chrix22]

Agreed.

All my content was removed from Spotify by Landr this week due to rogue vendors. Never buy any music store promotions from this site : https://comeup.com/

it sucks

I made that silly mistake but did not know it was drawn into shitty playlists.

Now I have an open ticket with support to solve it. Hope it will be reinstated.

[erikstearns]

That completely blows. Yeah, I never sign up for any of that stuff. With
me, it didn't take a shady service at all for them to remove my stuff.