Russ EXPOSES How the Music Industry FAKES STREAMS

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@corneliusrawness 4 месяца назад

One thing that annoys me so bad is when someone interrupts someone that actually knows what they are talking about when they know very little. Let the man cook damn

@alfredeneuman4947 4 месяца назад

who did it i missed it?

@corneliusrawness 4 месяца назад

@@alfredeneuman4947 lol yeaight

@SeekOneness 4 месяца назад

lol surprisingly, I think this is the least amount of times Schultz interrupted a guest… which is sad 🥲

@Premenyc 4 месяца назад

He is trying to act dumb

@Tunechi65 4 месяца назад

Mad annoying

@someonewashere8961 4 месяца назад

This is not much different from what music labels were doing before streams. They would control what played on the radio and this would control which artists were successful.

@heartlights 3 месяца назад

One could say this all isn't much different than how the free market works (only the best music gets listened to, making the best artists successful), except the elephant in the room is who is controlling other people's success and to what end. If this was just about "controlling the market" for the sake of the commonwealth, then why not let the free market deal with it? 🧐 Maybe the motives of the people currently in control of the music industry aren't in the best interests of the commonwealth.

@jghifiversveiws8729 3 месяца назад

Payola

@targetegrat 3 месяца назад

Even the record company buying multiple copies of the artist album to ensure they go multi platinum

@goatman3057 2 месяца назад

100% and suppressing artists like Gran who freaking rocks! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZBKIUi1eG1A.htmlsi=RW4o_0B4bebeqZTY Cc is English

@whoa_status 29 дней назад

Dr B 4:15 b

@donnyjay4269 4 месяца назад

Ice Spice is definitely being propped up.

@Dizzy808 4 месяца назад

all female rappers at this point they all suck

@jimhendrix7776 4 месяца назад

It's like katts been saying, they're plants!!! Everything built around them, image, character, outfits, writers etc...

@donnyjay4269 4 месяца назад

@@jimhendrix7776 fax, I don’t know anyone who likes her music. Yet she’s famous lol

@alien-hs1zn 3 месяца назад

Her producer dad works for the label she definitely a untalented industry plant

@goatman3057 2 месяца назад

Well Gran I think is being pushed down, he owns ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZBKIUi1eG1A.htmlsi=RW4o_0B4bebeqZTY Cc is English

@robertmaynez 4 месяца назад

It's modern day payola. "Fake commotion creates real emotion" - Russ. Fake streams equals real money vs fake followers doesn't equate real money.

@Tunechi65 4 месяца назад

Truth

@reconstruct23 4 месяца назад

Fake followers can equate to real money because it can alter the perception of your popularity. A person with 10 million followers isn’t gonna get paid the same as a person with 20 million followers for a Pepsi commercial (all other things being equal)

@Jkngz 4 месяца назад

This happens with govt too

@savethesouls_ 4 месяца назад

always look at views to likes ratio

@xndr_mrw 4 месяца назад

@@savethesouls_ please explain why that ratio is important? I've never liked a video on YT even if I enjoyed it. Won't that make that stat a false positive?

@u32481 4 месяца назад

Andrew I know they’re your friends but there’s way too many people on this podcast talking over each other. Put a couple behind the camera

@Jhizzle473 4 месяца назад

I agree so many people do this, even the live stream panels do it. They need to have a raise hand button for speaking purposes 😂

@ejboy9 4 месяца назад

That’s why it was better with the old set when Marc and Alex were off camera

@SravyaKuchipudi 4 месяца назад

@@ejboy9 lmao what? Russ was answering their questions the whole time and everyone was just listening

@valor1630 4 месяца назад

Empty cans are noisy cans.. 8:48

@KevinsDisobedience 4 месяца назад

lol literally no one was talking over each other here

@heartlights 3 месяца назад

Five years ago, "farming computers in third world countries and hacking the backend to make the IPs look American" was crazy shit that none of us understood but nowadays we're all like "yeah that makes sense"

@MaganaVentures 4 месяца назад

This is the same thing with New York best sellers. They publishing houses pays companies to buy their books to make get them on the list and seem like it’s a best seller.

@Amyus2346 3 месяца назад

This standard practice across all businesses. He’s not exposing shit

@goatman3057 2 месяца назад

Yeah and the books that help you get suppressed like Gran, he’s brilliant ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZBKIUi1eG1A.htmlsi=RW4o_0B4bebeqZTY Cc is in English

@kiratz123 4 месяца назад

Don’t be fooled. Even smaller artists are doing this. I know a rapper that been faking streams since he started rapping

@VikktorVampiir 4 месяца назад

yea me too... its Russ 🤣😂

@Ishbikes 4 месяца назад

@@VikktorVampiirthat’s why he’s so well versed.

@goatman3057 2 месяца назад

Well I know a guy who doesn’t his views suck haha but he’s awesome ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZBKIUi1eG1A.htmlsi=RW4o_0B4bebeqZTY names Gran

@a.j.triplett4624 2 месяца назад

I'll take it a step further and say it started with smaller and local artists and the corps just capitalized on it.

@Ishbikes 2 месяца назад

@@a.j.triplett4624 good catch

@heartlights 4 месяца назад

There's also mad amounts of hiding indie artist streams (so they don't appear to be competing in the same arena).

@Xavierrrr_edits 4 месяца назад

So much interrupting man, Russ is a great mind. I’m a hour in and it’s like holy shit how many times is he gonna get interrupted mid statement.

@antoineLebrane 4 месяца назад

its annoying asf😂😂😂

@xelaander8429 4 месяца назад

Don't worry, next time he'll talk into your ears just for you alone

@DannyJuke 4 месяца назад

That's prettyy this podcast to a T for the past year. Andrew doesn't shut up.

@WaitLook1 4 месяца назад

i was thinking that, but he won't just be interrupted wish is the power he shows

@antoineLebrane 4 месяца назад

@@xelaander8429 bro shut the hell up it always gotta be a weirdo saying something

@samgove7871 4 месяца назад

that sponsor banner is fucking gross

@xBlake 4 месяца назад

And to put it up when guest is talking…. Like they didn’t interrupt him enough

@bl2528 4 месяца назад

Bills gotta be paid

@xBlake 4 месяца назад

It’s not the fact that he put an ad, it’s that he did it in such an obnoxious way. Idk maybe he knew it’d make angry people comment

@Ishbikes 4 месяца назад

For that thing to be that big, they must’ve spent a shit ton of money..

@vacatola 4 месяца назад

It's not just music and it's not just entertainment. Everyone is trying to juice their analytics numbers across industries and it's been going on for at least 15 years.

@salokin2410 4 месяца назад

Yea it’s been pretty obvious for a while now. Streaming services constantly recommend dog crap movies and shows despite claiming they’re “most watched”, songs don’t have any soul in them anymore, even Facebook got called out for faking metrics to generate more ad revenue. The whole thing is fake and anyone paying attention has known something is off for a few years now. It seems to have taken off to a ridiculous degree after we were all forced to be online for nearly 2 years of Covid.

@chillyoungapex8545 4 месяца назад

Not 15 but yeah

@FreeDumb101 4 месяца назад

@@chillyoungapex8545Yes at least 15 if not more. Even cops. Watch The Wire

@s.harrison3699 4 месяца назад

Age old practices with different names. Fake stream=Payola Fake commotion=Marketing

@01downside 4 месяца назад

But legally it’s financial fraud. Influencers have been arrested for bots. But there’s so much money running through the system that they would destroy the market if it was stopped

@scoutwithoutclout 4 месяца назад

21 Pilots' song Heathens shows 2.1B streams. Good song, but my 1st reaction to seeing that was "no f'in way"

@xndr_mrw 4 месяца назад

I know a couple 100 broken whites in 3rd world countries that jam "Heathens" eerytime they party. 2.1B might be correct because of mental health problems worldwide. 😂😂😂

@AlexaOleksa 3 месяца назад

Heathens is Suicide squad official track,.it was boosted with movie promotions. But i personally like this song🤷

@wvlfkvnt Месяц назад

@@AlexaOleksawhich explains why they wouldn’t boost a song that isn’t already gaining traction. It’s not blatant but is obvious.

@derfmode 4 месяца назад

I actually know exactly how they are doing this on Spotify. And on SoundCloud. I was watching a computer science video about probability when I had the idea. I tested it on SoundCloud just to see if it really works and I went to sleep. The next morning, the song I had to uploaded to SoundCloud had 16k plays. I’m not going to get into much detail because I don’t support this practice and I think it’s scummy. This was just an experiment. But I will be vague… basically a couple dozen alternate proxy servers set up streaming the song, on repeat from dozens of countries at once via VPN trickery… all from a single computer. The hardest part was writing a python script for this for automation.. though wasn’t too difficult, But these days with AI… Things are so accessible for anyone. My guess is the labels could add millions of plays and views overnight if they wanted. But that would raise suspicion. So they are probably trying to be somewhat discrete about the rate in which they boost their product.

@erikrosalez3041 Месяц назад

Do the rise of use of vpns help these

@erikrosalez3041 Месяц назад

As people using the vpn services becoming like a node for music streams

@derfmode Месяц назад

@@erikrosalez3041 it could

@axxelfoley3304 4 месяца назад

Lupe talked about this years ago at MIT class he teaches

@jazzbase412 4 месяца назад

Thank you

@Ishbikes 4 месяца назад

Difference between Lupe & Russ is *Lupe is genuine.*

@sticks2478 4 месяца назад

I'm a professional drummer. Here is a money story for ya. There's a professional player who made 4000 a month in his first pro gig in the late 70s. Then he got the gig with Lionel Richie and the money went to 30000 a month. Next Michael Jackson's band for 45000 a month. Then we hit the 90s. His next offer was for the backstreet boys..... they offered 10000 a month. Today a pro player can earn as little as 4 to 5 thousand a month from gigs. Most also teach and do whatever else they can to stay in the game, as they do it for the love. I get it. Especially as a drummer. Who wants to pay good money for a live musician when a machine will do the job for near zero cost.

@johnviera3884 4 месяца назад

you need to be a touring drummer. Touring is up by 800% versus 1979. so its not that bad.

@matthoward598 4 месяца назад

As a huge fan of electronic music. And a fan of live music. You can't replicate a live drummer, both for studio or live performance. Daft Punk understood that.

@mercytms4145 4 месяца назад

@@ginko154idk g. I've been listening to Squidward and SpongeBob AI tearing up tracks over the originals... He's on to something

@Ishbikes 4 месяца назад

@@globaldefenseorgright? Even the books are trash nowadays! 😂 that’s 100% truth.. the books are horrible now.

@Premenyc 4 месяца назад

Shultz acting like the podcasting industry isnt doing the same thing. Lol

@liquidgold 4 месяца назад

ESPECIALLY on IG bruh. There would be a person with 1 million followers but posts would only have 30 likes?

@Christian-eq6pq 4 месяца назад

Podcasters are botting streams? I don’t even see how that would be helpful or work unless they’re paying to get on Apple’s charts

@DannyJuke 4 месяца назад

@@Christian-eq6pq Brendan Schaub literally got caught buying views on RU-vid to juke the system.

@Premenyc 4 месяца назад

@@Christian-eq6pq same way it happens with music genius… and they are on spotify also if you havent noticed spotifys biggest thing now is podcast

@Premenyc 4 месяца назад

@@Christian-eq6pq bruh just said i dont see how that would be helpful lol. Are you shultz on an alt account?

@Kcking74 4 месяца назад

They use family plans and cheap phones to put the songs on repeat. For every 3 plays you get .01 cent on Spotify. Farming streams.

@kaygee9833 4 месяца назад

It's crazy out here!

@AlexaOleksa 3 месяца назад

If you put song on repeat it is filtered out, if you want streams to count, you should put 2-3 different track between targeted track and change playlists every couple hours)))

@peacepocket 2 месяца назад

You can’t fake concert ticket sales. If an artist is selling out arena tours, the fanbase is real.

@2-Corrupt Месяц назад

True but they selling out tickets and still botting streams. Double the money

@user-le4yi7wn8q 4 месяца назад

No different then when you thought the artist sold a million back in the day but label really purchased copies

@humanbeing4368 24 дня назад

Right on! Just like labels will buy tour tickets to give the illusion of it being sold out.

@BLLRRR 4 месяца назад

Yo its 2024 name the guys getting the fake streams ,be like katt Williams 😂

@DonniesWrld35 4 месяца назад

RUSS TALK DAT TALK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌💯

@JohnnyHayesMusic 4 месяца назад

Bro, thank you so much for bringing this to light. We could feel it already, but it’s really nice to hear this to be honest with you.

@SuperGoodbag 4 месяца назад

Taylor swift is somewhere shaking because this info got out

@rishabhmishra9230 4 месяца назад

She fills stadiums after stadiums. you're an idiot

@MrKohulann30 4 месяца назад

i mean im not a taylor fan by any stretch but their logic is that the artists that sell out shows aren't doing the fake streams, taylor just had the most successful tour in history lol

@Dominic_V 4 месяца назад

taylor not faking anything lol

@Will-lg9ev 4 месяца назад

No he stated all artist do, if they are signed to a label. Her label is in the business of keeping her massive.

@ZeroSky89 4 месяца назад

I live in Nashville and when she comes through here for her tour it literally warps Nashville. Its crazy. people come from all over and wear her merch everywhere. its kinda crazy the influence she has.

@MinterXGaming 4 месяца назад

Yo, this is crazy. He is spitting back nothing but facts he is literally giving you verbal receipt and going out of his way not to call people out and you can hear the genuine like almost temptation in his voice. This is a crazy world we live in.

@ChDrY 4 месяца назад

Need more ads on this video andrew

@daveSoupy 4 месяца назад

How is this any different than Sprint buying enough copies of Jay-Z's album so it goes gold?

@pitchking5496 4 месяца назад

No difference except today it’s much easier to hide and you can juice the numbers so ridiculous no one will tell that isn’t into marketing or data analytics.

@Ishbikes 4 месяца назад

It’s not..

@nklinef 4 месяца назад

They've been doing this forever with radio stations. It's just an old racket taking advantage of new technology. The same principle was applied to MTV when it showed videos. It's but a single facet of what Noam Chomsky called Manufactured Consent.

@derpderpington824 4 месяца назад

Right? This has been going on since we learned how to press vinyl.😂

@jorgaridya7085 20 дней назад

They flag my lastest single because it did 35k streams and they removed it. Spotify and Distrokid won't give you any form of evidence or appeal. When I check the playlists it was on some where from "official" Spotify playlist but 2 striked me as fake. One of them was an user name Artister. I reported the playlists and the user but they both still on Spotify and my song was taken down. That's bullshit. We don't have any control over what user do in the platform. If your song is pick and place on a bot playlist without your concent, you have no way to remove it. I requested to get all music from Spotify but Distrokid want me to delete all my music from my Distrokid account and reupload them and then exclude Spotify. That's is more bullshit.

@KeepItReal213 4 месяца назад

Yep. Russ is faking his streams lol. How hard he’s trying to look innocent and deny it tells it all. 🤣🤣🤣

@clqrqqboxtxng5901 4 месяца назад

Loool facts!

@StaceyFoxx 4 месяца назад

how u know...?Proof?

@KeepItReal213 4 месяца назад

@@StaceyFoxx Proof is what I posted ^^. He said he knows how to fake streams but yet he's trying way too hard to make himself look innocent. Over explaining and trying to convince the audience why he doesn't. LOL. It's obvious he does.

@markmittens 2 месяца назад

what's scary is this applies to so much more

@RashaudPlayer 4 месяца назад

The fade deadly mane

@salty_superspreader3647 4 месяца назад

RUSS PUTS ON LIVE. IN HOUSTON. YES THATS A DOPE SHOW. MUCH RESPECT

@hotephomie8024 3 месяца назад

This is essentially what happens in every facet of the entertainment industry. They fake commotion, to make commotion.

@shengrant3088 4 месяца назад

Shultz got that i am fire captian from staten Island "what's the matter with youssss" lmfao 😂😂😂

@eyeofgodmortis1094 3 месяца назад

hi sr

@Jhizzle473 4 месяца назад

I’ve been saying this for years I’m not in the industry but think about it you have one song or are marketable on Tik tok have little talent and people reach out to you to become famous, you become an investment to them. They then hire writers to make your songs better or even write all your lyrics for you or fake streams you are just the face at that point, basically making you too big to fail because you’d cost them so much money if you tanked as an artist.

@kokoBuSiLiCa 4 месяца назад

Russ said nothing but facts this whole episode, it's my favorite episode recently. I'm writing rap and I'm following the culture for 20 years, Russ is just spot on and speaking pure logic.

@JasonFarrellLevelUpBoxing 4 месяца назад

They have guys that just have rooms filled with phones cranking out streams all day. I forget the guys name but it was a guy from Baltimore that used to do it for other artists, that did it for himself and made him the number 1 guy on Spotify, with a whole billboard in Times Square and all that! A dude I never heard of, I still can’t remember his name and hasn’t heard of sense

@michaelblutstein7270 4 месяца назад

Any chance you can find their name? I’m so curious

@AdrianMilanio 2 месяца назад

@@michaelblutstein7270Chad focus

@heythere6983 4 месяца назад

That’s what they do on RU-vid numbers , songs have bullions on RU-vid or hundreds of millions yet the most viral songs only get 5-10 mill for a year

@kaylawoodie6510 6 дней назад

Mad respect for Russ always!! what a phenomenal interview

@MrDrunkNFunky 4 месяца назад

Helsinki Streaming farms.. look it up

@AlexaOleksa 3 месяца назад

That's why the only real data is sold out shows amd how many people want to see you live. And when the streams match sale, match sold out stadiums - real confirmation, but when you have billion streams and can't fill 15k arena...well, that tells you smth

@heartlights 3 месяца назад

If we can foster the return of indie music scenes (bands, labels, zines, touring companies, venues, etc) we can regain freedom for artists and the community. When i was a kid, we learned about groups by going to see our favorite bands and catching the opening act or reading reviews in the local zines and online. When we abandoned that stuff for festivals and pitchfork we lost that. Time to get it back!!!

@alexvillafranco9030 4 месяца назад

This dude got half a fade

@maexmaestermann471 4 месяца назад

They do that FOR SURE!

@SeekOneness 4 месяца назад

Russ stay dropping gems 💎 on the regular- never understood why this dude gets so much hate… yet, his music gets so much love?! He’s one of the only real ones in the industry who tells it how it is. Hope he keeps growing like this. Dig the music, but respect him more for the insights he delivers. 💯

@mitchy2311 4 месяца назад

Can’t get love without hate

@A.RBLISS 4 месяца назад

Now Spotify makes u click a box before submitting a song stating that u as a artist will not pay for buy promo streams and if you do you will get kicked off Spotify and possibly sued

@DePerfectionist96 4 месяца назад

bro that doesn't mean shit. This is only applicable to new random artists that might buy fake streams to promote themselves. This i suppose is done so the charts don't get completely flooded and out of control from whatever "soundcloud" artists. If you are already behind a big label that shit can't get tracked easily especially when you already have some organic traction and real fan base as Russ said. But manipulated streams = fake streams nonetheless

@Arizona9001 4 месяца назад

RU-vid please never show this podcast to me again

@antoineLebrane 4 месяца назад

facts first and last time im listening😂😂

@GrimysocietyTv 4 месяца назад

Labels Have been buying artists cds tapes stream since music began to make an artist number 1 you can see mtv videos where artists buy all the cds in the stores to push for number 1

@Prodby.1takeonthetrack 4 месяца назад

The math not mathing 😂 facts jcole said it best

@jazzbase412 4 месяца назад

Thanks is that where that comes from 😂

@Prodby.1takeonthetrack 4 месяца назад

@@jazzbase412 facts 😂

@dmx1721 Месяц назад

i never used apple or spotify , i have sooooooooooooooo much cd's form ever since i was in high school that all i need is a ipod or cell phone that i can get a bigger sd card and put my music on their so i don't need any streaming service to listen to music on

@publicenemy1238 4 месяца назад

2:40 I work in marketing and we do this all the time. You're not discovering something significant

@memphysmoto2649 4 месяца назад

The same way they buy followers and views, they buy streams. There are millions of companies that provide these services.

@henriquesa2384 Месяц назад

The majority of artits as celebs buy A LOT of bots on social media, you can see celebs with more than 200 Million/ more than 300 Million followers and then when they post, they get like, 1 or 2 Million likes, sometimes 3, just 1%, or even less, of theiir "followers" , doesnt make sense.

@Bigjohn-jm7un 4 месяца назад

@ 2:55, why did they switch leg positions at the same time, indicted by a sigh? I’ve seen this done before, usually as a prank on the guest to make them over analyze, but I don’t see the reasoning here.

@heartlights 3 месяца назад

Someone should explain to Schulz how the podcast producers are in on the ruse.

@JaneyBrown Месяц назад

Russ: “Fake commotion ends up creating real commotion”…. Such a poignant way of describing the psychological phenomenon called “reciprocal determinism”. The fake spectacle attracts real eyes, the real eyes see a real spectacle… and a real spectacle is born. Fame in a nutshell.

@Prince9layaNarQuis6ratitudeX3 4 месяца назад

This is why I chose to not go for that dream Im very wise and Ik how things are... They Finessing...

@Frogmommyiester 3 месяца назад

😢 Russ will never be on our radio, so i am here everyday to listen. Hes super underrated.

@kevinbishop5722 2 месяца назад

Wow this was an awesome interview

@wavegod_1006 Месяц назад

It’s like how the labels use to buy the albums to boost first weeks sales

@x6da9crain 4 месяца назад

Everyone of thier videos is full of comments about them talking over the guest 😂. Fr these guys ask the hard questions they just need to let the guest have more time without interruptions

@dominickkasza8096 2 месяца назад

This Man, #Russ @Russ is so brilliant and apprised of the shenanigans of the Industry. Speak that TRUTH!

@OhkayTheKhameleon 4 месяца назад

The idea definitley first started with social media its like wait a minute the # of followers don't match the # of likes 🤔

@BigWrangler 4 месяца назад

Russ got little hands. But so do I. God bless.

@stykessavant 4 месяца назад

Good convo but unnecessary question to ask…same thing as buying ig likes or followers

@dontbestupid6664 4 месяца назад

I’m glad everyone noticed how these guys can’t seem to stfu while their guest is talking.

@antoineLebrane 4 месяца назад

bro its sooooo annoying i just watched shannon sharpe interview monique and he was extremely respectful when she was making a point

@xelaander8429 4 месяца назад

Then go somewhere else ffs and stop whining

@nothinbutms 4 месяца назад

there was a tipping point where the hype is now at least 90% better than the album being hyped.

@varsame 2 месяца назад

That 315 song was THE song on TikTok

@demontacoats3187 4 месяца назад

Dude got interrupted at least 50 times

@CAhmadDavis92 4 месяца назад

Think about alot of big companies for the past 40 years engaging in stock buybacks just to make it look like the Company is doing well.

@elder_millennial_Fboy 4 месяца назад

I work for a tech startup, data or in this case streaming farms are 100% a real thing, it's a huge booming industry in Bangladesh. Ive been to a few of these warehouses, it's just tech sweat shops

@yuhyuhyuhyuh7158 4 месяца назад

Wsp w Andrews cut lmao

@kendallmurphy8357 4 месяца назад

this dont hit the same coming from somebody that pops was working within the industry before he made his first record lol

@skrrtfranklin 4 месяца назад

There’s websites lol it’s called bots Russ 😂

@heartlights 3 месяца назад

"streams are fake but the money's real" sounds like a line from the investment bankers at the convention in The Big Short. Like dang *You guys understand that's not how this works right!?*

@LamarStrong-bp6gk 9 дней назад

The thing about these artists they to put names on them on who doing these things to them like saying the names will expose them

@XiONDiGiTaL 4 месяца назад

Shit it aint even just the streams, it's views, subscribers, IG followers,.etc..

@StaceyFoxx 4 месяца назад

why are they talking over each other lol

@1tayke 4 месяца назад

they doing this with youtube views too , all entertainment plats.

@christinapomponio6452 4 месяца назад

Well shit it is very possible to do those type of numbers organically as an independent artist. shit look at what Tom MacDonald ft Ben Shapiro "facts" did. And the craziest part to me is their song was competing with Nikki Minaj's "Big foot" diss song and that shit was wack AF, even everyone in the comments was like "wtf? Nikki y would u release this, it's so bad". It was/is absolutely no comparison between those two songs, in terms of popularity.

@Bubbles-qh7ez 4 месяца назад

Nicki has a big fan base that will buy and stream whatever she puts out

@officialkngfst 4 месяца назад

dropping major jewels💎💎💎

@asvpXl3ssy 2 месяца назад

Remembered that J Cole lyric

@sdot7117 4 месяца назад

Wait…Russ had a deal with Columbia? 🤔 I thought he was always independent.

@haalandoates 2 месяца назад

This makes me think Hotline Bling might've been an early example of this

@erickt9415 4 месяца назад

New found respect for Russ 🔥💯

@jasonmau6564 4 месяца назад

It's funny because when I pick songs I've never heard I will always click on a higher view count because the song will most likely be better. So I guess its working

@mictrap1383 4 месяца назад

Russ a real one man 💯

@KeepItReal213 4 месяца назад

But you can tell he’s also faking streams. Lol. He’s trying too hard to deny it. 🤣🤣

@johnisouth6636 4 месяца назад

Bots. I was in a nobody group on a fun little app that that produced music on with samples. Its called MMJ. Just for fun. There was sbout 10 of us. We each made 10 burner accts. When one of us would drop a track we would give the tracks a like from each if the accounts bumling up it up the list. All fake

@mindgravybear2971 3 месяца назад

“This is Russ uncut, I’ll expose yall” … exposed is a classic whether yall heard it or not

@botgang5092 4 месяца назад

Talking over the guest really hurts the quality of the interview we are trying to hear what’s being relayed. 😕

@lucyirungu1598 4 месяца назад

Megan song droped from one to 26 the in one week

@ACanofHopePodcast 2 месяца назад

The way Russ articulated his thoughts and kept it all within the realm of business and marketing as opposed to fanning the flames of conspiracy; he just earned a new listener to his work.