🚨 Do you understand what this man just pulled off..
> a guy from North Carolina used AI to generate hundreds of thousands of songs.. uploaded them to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon.. then botted billions of streams on his own tracks and walked away with $8 million
> 660,000 fake streams per day.. spread across thousands of AI songs so nobody noticed.. $1.2 million a year.. for music no human ever actually listened to
real artists are out here grinding for 0.003 cents per stream.. promoting on TikTok.. begging for playlist placements.. and this guy just had AI make the music AND the audience
first-ever criminal streaming fraud case.. he's paying back $8 million.. but the playbook is out there now.. and AI just got better since he started
the music industry spent 10 years fighting piracy.. now they have to fight songs that don't exist being listened to by people who don't exist.
The first criminal case of streaming fraud where a North Carolina musician who used AI to make songs, then streamed them billions of times himself making $8 million
🎧🗡️ (01/04) "2 PUÑALAITAS (de Andalucía)" de Cristina Lora recibe una eliminación de -42.792 streams fraudulentos en Spotify.
#CristinaLora#OTDirecto2A#CristinaLora2A
🎧 (01/04) El álbum, "111XPANTIA" de Fuerza Regida, sufre una eliminación de 9.6M streams fraudulentos en Spotify 🤖
— 8 canciones, sufren la eliminación de bots, y, 3 pasan las 2M de streams 📉
FUERZA REGIDA sufrió un desplome en streams. Ayer la agrupación aparecía superando los 24M diarios, pero hoy Spotify recortó la cifra hasta cerca de 8M tras una depuración de streams sospechosos por posible uso de bots. El ajuste deja más dudas que respuestas. 😬
🚨'Big Guy from The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants' by Ice Spice received -1,136,679 unfiltered streams on Spotify on February 1, following Spotify’s removal of streams
via: @Spotify_numbers
SPOTIFY's monthly removal of botted streams happened and BTS has LOST over 17 MILLION streams for their recent ALBUM Arirang.
• Highest LOST by a kpop album in Spotify's HISTORY.
• Highest LOST by an album released in 2026
• Highest LOST by a KPOP band ever.
You know with all this news of botting across Twitch, Spotify, Twitter, Kick, it’s making me wonder is any popularity real on social media? Are we all just spoon fed and told who we’re supposed to like because they’ve got “followers”?
Los bots que pululan en Twitter y tuitean banalidades incoherentes. En Spotify, los artistas ficticios llenan las listas de reproducción con canciones sin alma.
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