NEW YORK CITY, NY – There is currently an article spreading like wildfire that accuses music streaming giant Spotify of cooking their numbers in the form of fake accounts in a maneuver that keeps them from paying royalties to their extensive artist database. And if the DMN article was the fire, then this Vulture editorial which ran the day after the 4th of July and this Music Business Worldwide article posted in August of 2016 were the matches Smokey the Bear warns kids about.
Naturally, Spotify is distancing themselves from all claims of shady spamming.
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