Streaming Farms: The Black Market of the Music Business

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Could your favorite artist's streams be skyrocketing because of fake plays? Spotify thinks so. Here's how streaming farms like these have taken over charts and shut out smaller artists.
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10 сен 2024

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@HShango 5 месяцев назад

So thats how they get their songs to number 1 on Spotify and youtube music

@corngang2820 4 месяца назад

Not all of them but some yes

@MewWolf5 5 месяцев назад

Wild! I hope those of us who like to listen to the same song a lot don't erroneously have our streams flagged as fraud, though.

@Darkest_matter 5 месяцев назад

How does this steal from artists exactly?

@georget10i 5 месяцев назад

She explains it at 0:49. Let's say Spotify has $100 budget for the year, 20 songs in their library, and they give $1 per play of a song. If your song plays 35 times, then you get $35. So now, the rest of the 19 songs get to share the remaining $65. If you use a streaming farm, you keep racking up the plays and thus, taking more and more from that $100 pool. The rest of the songs get less of it to share. At least, that's how I understood it.

@moamber1 4 месяца назад

At 0:13 you used a footage from Nanyang Art Museum installation as "streaming farm". Looks ironic, when speaking about "distorting reality".

@stickynorth 4 месяца назад

Oldest tricks are the best tricks...

@DLuzElAngelMusikal 5 месяцев назад

Known record labels also do this …

@moamber1 4 месяца назад

They don't have to. Spotify is their lapdog. I mean - Spotify is paying them millions, giving huge amount of advert spots, and lots of "special services". Labels don't need to rig this casino any further.

@BigStash 15 дней назад

Nobody promotes a song for a day then drops it at midnight and it does 1M streams. Cmon now. The way they turn "stars" into one hit wonders is crazy especially in hip hop.

@Uufda651 3 месяца назад

I do loop songs on repeat for hours irl, I think I've heard that it's an ADHD thing? And if someone starts listening to music at work then their music listening would obviously jump. This scam is reprehensible and I support cracking down, but I feel like there are potential issues with the criteria disadvantaging creators liked by certain groups, and the streaming services should be able to customize the parameters better. Like if a bunch of devices are streaming the same song at the same location. Or the looping happens with a bunch of devices all at once all of a sudden.

@lorenzoo90 5 месяцев назад

Does any else notice that the music that they release now is just propaganda and they are trying to silence old song with that they consider unwanted behavior decide what you think that is?

@Darkest_matter 5 месяцев назад

it's always been like that

@lorenzoo90 5 месяцев назад

@@Darkest_matter has it cuz I've been listening to music from other cultures and they talk about real things that matter not how much bling they got or how they got some suckers money by playing them

@Darkest_matter 5 месяцев назад

@@lorenzoo90 listen to Salma - Freestyle. It's Arabic and English. He's fire.

@Darkest_matter 5 месяцев назад

*Dalma

@AlbertCloete 5 месяцев назад

The royalty system is implemented incorrectly if streaming farms are able to exploit the system like this. Any one streamer should only be able to affect where the money of their own subscription gets allocated to.

@moamber1 4 месяца назад

Streaming is not about money. You don't earn money in Spotify. It's about popularity. Then you earn on physical sales and gigs.