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.