The last year or two has seen a dispiriting growth in the number of artists finding AI-slop tracks uploaded to their streaming profiles pretending to be them. So much so […]
Tag: Streaming Fraud
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Tuned Global is launching tech to detect streaming manipulation
Streaming fraud doesn’t just happen on the biggest services: it can happen on any DSP. In fact, there are benefits for fraudsters in running their schemes across a wider array […]
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IFPI hails Boom de Seguidores block in streaming-fraud fight
Brazil is one of the big positives in the recorded-music industry’s current growth story, rising one place to eighth in the IFPI’s global country-rankings for 2025. However, it also remains a focus […]
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TikTok’s SoundOn is using ACRCloud to crack down on music fraud
An announcement last week by TikTok’s distribution arm SoundOn sounds dry, but it’s part of the bigger debate about distributors’ role in the spread of fake or infringing music on […]
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From Access to Infrastructure: How Managers Can Win at StreamingÂ
For the first decade of streaming, success was largely about access. The industry focused on getting music onto digital service providers as quickly and widely as possible, and solving distribution […]
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Spotify cracks down on fake releases with ‘Artist Profile Protection’ feature
There have been several examples of new tracks or albums seemingly released by artists that turned to be fake. Now Spotify is cracking down.
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Michael Smith pleads guilty in $10m streaming-fraud case
It’s now 18 months since US music producer Michael Smith was arrested and charged with multiple felonies relating to a streaming-fraud scheme. He was accused of uploading hundreds of thousands of tracks […]
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Ankur Tewari has a dozen new songs on DSPs — but he didn’t record any of them
When Indian singer-songwriter Ankur Tewari went to his Apple Music account this past weekend, he was shocked to find that his ‘latest release’ wasn’t his new single ‘Chand Takiye’ but […]
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Apple says it demonetised 2bn fraudulent music streams in 2025
Apple Music identified and demonetised up to 2bn fraudulent streams last year according to longtime exec Oliver Schusser. He was talking to The Hollywood Reporter about Apple’s ongoing efforts to tackle fraud […]
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Deezer says up to 85% of its AI-music streams are now fraudulent
Deezer says it is now receiving more than 60,000 fully-AI tracks every day, and that’s 39% of total uploads.
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What a year on the ground taught me about AI and the future of music
– by Nathalie Birocheau, CEO, Ircam Amplify Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to sit at the same table as collective management organisations, DSPs, independent labels, researchers, artists, […]
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Spotify confirms it paid no royalties to fake King Gizzard band
We reported yesterday on the removal from Spotify of music uploaded to the service in the name of ‘King Lizard Wizard’.
