""Every month, under Spotify's watchful eye, billions of fraudulent streams are generated from fake, illegitimate, and/or illegal methods [like bots]," the complaint reads. "This mass-scale fraudulent streaming causes massive financial harm to legitimate artists, songwriters, producers, and other rightsholders whose proportional share is decreased as a result of fraudulent stream inflation on Spotify's platform." Spotify pays streaming royalties based on an artist's share of total streams."
"The complaint claims this alleged fraudulent activity took place between "January 2022 and September 2025," with an examination of "abnormal VPN usage" revealing at least 250,000 streams of Drake's song "No Face" during a four-day period in 2024 were actually from Turkey "but were falsely geomapped through the coordinated use of VPNs to the United Kingdom in [an] attempt to obscure their origins.""
RBX of Long Beach filed a class-action lawsuit alleging Spotify allowed billions of fraudulent streams generated by bots and other illicit methods. The complaint contends fraudulent stream inflation reduced proportional shares and caused financial harm to legitimate artists, songwriters, and producers because Spotify pays royalties based on an artist's share of total streams. The suit names Drake as an example, asserting a substantial portion of his 37 billion streams were inauthentic and linked to networks of bot accounts. The complaint alleges the activity occurred between January 2022 and September 2025 and cites abnormal VPN usage that showed at least 250,000 streams in 2024 originated in Turkey but were falsified to appear in the United Kingdom.
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