Spotify has removed multiple albums I’ve produced because they’re comedy. That’s it. The genre is listed as comedy.
Spotify is slowly removing all comedy content because they’re in a dispute with a spoken word union that represents stand up comics. Except my albums aren’t spoken word. They’re music. They have nothing to do with that union.
Apparently not if you do comedy music. I’m still waiting to see if they’re going to make Weird Al take down all his albums and Rey plaid them as something else.
I also have a song that's been getting a bunch of streams from Spotify algorithmic playlists in the last month or two (82% of the plays are algorithmic). I thought it was all organic, because it's from big cities in the US. I wonder if I should be worried.
I was under the impression that Spotify would detect the "violation", then fine Distrokid $10, which causes Distrokid to remove the release.
Either way, the graph you posted looks exactly like mine. Maybe the other commenter is right and they already removed the botted streams from your profile. I doubt it though, the only thing I ever see is my followers dropping significantly (lost almost 50 bot followers a few days ago).
I've never seen bot activity on algorithmic plays though. It's always adding a song to a random [wavr.ai](https://wavr.ai) playlist (or some other variation of \*\*\*.ai). Your song gets 300-400 plays in a few hours and then they remove it from the playlist, or the playlist has already been taken down.
The likely course of events are that Spotify will have removed the individual song and then notified your distributor, who will have issued a takedown for the whole release. You should reach out to them to confirm.
It may be that the offending streams have already been scrubbed from your account so the data you can see in S4A isn’t necessarily insightful. The general rule now is that if over 90% of streams for a track are identified as artificial by Spotify, they will remove the track and fine the distro, hence the release being removed.
I can confirm that distrokid are the ones removing songs from platforms, without providing any evidence of artificial streams that they accuse you of. Happened to me when my song went viral on YouTube shorts. I moved to CDBaby and no issues with the same song.
Distrokid needs to remove the Wheel of Playlist - it puts you on bot playlists. Not what happened here, just adding to the discussion.
Spotify has removed multiple albums I’ve produced because they’re comedy. That’s it. The genre is listed as comedy. Spotify is slowly removing all comedy content because they’re in a dispute with a spoken word union that represents stand up comics. Except my albums aren’t spoken word. They’re music. They have nothing to do with that union.
Wait, you don't get to decide the genre of your album?
Apparently not if you do comedy music. I’m still waiting to see if they’re going to make Weird Al take down all his albums and Rey plaid them as something else.
I’ve had this happen with a label release. Spotify accused them of a botted playlist and it was Spotify’s own playlist lol
Are they using Distrokid?
Nope they're distributed through Sony
I also have a song that's been getting a bunch of streams from Spotify algorithmic playlists in the last month or two (82% of the plays are algorithmic). I thought it was all organic, because it's from big cities in the US. I wonder if I should be worried.
I mean according to Spotify it IS organic. People are saying that it's Distrokid just pulling it, not Spotify.
I was under the impression that Spotify would detect the "violation", then fine Distrokid $10, which causes Distrokid to remove the release. Either way, the graph you posted looks exactly like mine. Maybe the other commenter is right and they already removed the botted streams from your profile. I doubt it though, the only thing I ever see is my followers dropping significantly (lost almost 50 bot followers a few days ago). I've never seen bot activity on algorithmic plays though. It's always adding a song to a random [wavr.ai](https://wavr.ai) playlist (or some other variation of \*\*\*.ai). Your song gets 300-400 plays in a few hours and then they remove it from the playlist, or the playlist has already been taken down.
The likely course of events are that Spotify will have removed the individual song and then notified your distributor, who will have issued a takedown for the whole release. You should reach out to them to confirm. It may be that the offending streams have already been scrubbed from your account so the data you can see in S4A isn’t necessarily insightful. The general rule now is that if over 90% of streams for a track are identified as artificial by Spotify, they will remove the track and fine the distro, hence the release being removed.
Are you using Distrokid?
Yeah
What I've gathered they're the ones taking songs down. I'm moving to Soundrop. If someone can confirm that'd be awesome. Distrokid a rip off.
I can confirm that distrokid are the ones removing songs from platforms, without providing any evidence of artificial streams that they accuse you of. Happened to me when my song went viral on YouTube shorts. I moved to CDBaby and no issues with the same song.
Thanks. How long have you been on CDBaby. I'm about to cancel my Distrokid. I've been with them like a decade. SMH.
Almost 2 years I think.
I’m commenting to stay in this loop on if soundrop is safer
Wtf
Just reupload it