PSA if your Spotify wrapped randomly includes a top artists.

(Who you don’t actually listen to)

That artist is likely being pushed through a fraudulent botnet designed to siphon money from the streaming pool.

*Even top artists have been caught doing this. ImageImage
Highly recommend you change your password on your Spotify account if you see a top artist you don’t recognize.

Keeping your account safe provides more money to all artists on Spotify.

Also reporting bad actors
I did a video on this awhile back in case you are curious about how these fraudulent botnet's work.

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14 Jan
Jesus Christ, there’s so much fraud on Spotify;

I didn't realize Spotify themselves was fully complicit though...

Here's an artist that has 132M streams on their most popular song.

Google her and enjoy reading a completely fake backstory with a stock photo decoy.

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I did some research on this and Turns out these fake artists on Spotify are mostly created by one company also located in Stockholm (also where Spotify is)

The company responsible is epidemic sound.

Here’s a list of 10 songs that created by fake artists (1.22b streams)

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Here's where it gets pretty shady,

Spotify claims that they don't make fake artists but epidemic and Spotify are owned by a common investor a VC firm by the name of Creandum.

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