An alarming report circulated online in the first week of 2021: Spotify had reportedly pulled “some 750,000 songs” off its platform due to evidence of streaming fraud, according to an entertainment attorney, who added that “the vast majority” of the songs “appear[ed] to have used Distrokid for distribution.” Furious artists ripped into both the streamer and the distributor on social media, claiming they had never been involved with fraudulent streams and they didn’t know why their music had been taken down.
Spotify disputed both of those assertions, however, saying that the number of tracks removed was far fewer than 750,000 and that music from a variety of
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