apparently it got taken off spotify n replaced with sm weird ai (??) cover.. i hope that jon-yakitory is able to get the normal song back on spotify
have you guys heard about the konton boogie hacking ??
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This is unfortunately a very common thing on Spotify, I honestly think they're all done by the same person. 
So, music distribution is weird. The background is: you as an independent artist don't get to talk to Spotify or Apple or the many other music streaming companies if you want to get your music onto them. They only deal with record labels, or digital music distributors: DistroKid, Landr, TuneCore, etc.. They're responsible for verifying your release before they send it, as well as legal paperwork for royalties, and they submit it to the streaming platforms.
The crucial bit is: anything you enter into the song/album/etc metadata is not automatically validated against any sort of central source of truth...because no such thing exists. Catching fraud is based on someone noticing it during review...which is unlikely for small artists.
This happened recently to PPPP by TAK, and I think ECHO at some point too. There's a whole video on YouTube, by Venus Theory, where he creates an account on a distributor and does it to himself to demonstrate it. It ends up happening on all of the streaming platforms once the release goes out.
Deezer, another streaming service, estimates that up to 70% of streams of AI-generated music are fraudulent. Up to 70% of streams of AI-generated music on Deezer are fraudulent, says report
They fall into two primary categories: putting tracks on playlists and having a fake-play farm play them on repeat to collect money (potentially money laundering is involved too?) or scams targeting established musicians, where they file false copyright claims and put up a fake to collect the plays intended for the real track.
The crucial bit is: anything you enter into the song/album/etc metadata is not automatically validated against any sort of central source of truth...because no such thing exists. Catching fraud is based on someone noticing it during review...which is unlikely for small artists.
This happened recently to PPPP by TAK, and I think ECHO at some point too. There's a whole video on YouTube, by Venus Theory, where he creates an account on a distributor and does it to himself to demonstrate it. It ends up happening on all of the streaming platforms once the release goes out.
Deezer, another streaming service, estimates that up to 70% of streams of AI-generated music are fraudulent. Up to 70% of streams of AI-generated music on Deezer are fraudulent, says report
They fall into two primary categories: putting tracks on playlists and having a fake-play farm play them on repeat to collect money (potentially money laundering is involved too?) or scams targeting established musicians, where they file false copyright claims and put up a fake to collect the plays intended for the real track.