"A class-action lawsuit filed a few weeks ago in California by Snoop Dogg's cousin, rapper RBX, claims that Spotify allowed, for more than three years, a significant volume of fraudulent streams across Drake's catalog. What exactly does fraudulent mean? The filing refers to bots, automated accounts, and traffic masked through VPNs that allegedly inflated part of the nearly 37 billion streams the artist accumulated between 2022 and 2025."
"As an example, it cites that over a four-day period there were suspicious streams specifically 250,000 of the song No Face. To be clear, Drake is not accused of fraud, but he does appear as a potential beneficiary of a system combining lax oversight, opaque financial incentives, and a setup that prioritizes volume over consistency. The lawsuit mentions patterns as improbable as accounts listening almost 23 hours a day,"
A class-action lawsuit filed in California by rapper RBX alleges Spotify allowed more than three years of fraudulent streams across Drake's catalog. The filing describes bots, automated accounts, and VPN-masked traffic that allegedly inflated part of nearly 37 billion streams between 2022 and 2025, mentioning billions without specifying an exact number. The complaint cites anomalies such as 250,000 suspicious plays of No Face over four days, accounts listening almost 23 hours daily, rapid routing between countries, and large numbers of plays originating in Turkey but recorded as U.K. traffic. The case highlights a system of lax oversight and opaque financial incentives that can divert payments and leave artists penalized through distributors without clear remedies.
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