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can you follow up on the recreating popular songs and how spotify wronged taylor swift?

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Sure, quick google searches… there’s definitely more but this gives you enough info.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-denies-its-pl...

https://kotaku.com/spotify-music-streaming-fake-artist-ai-ap...

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/fake-artists-have-...

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/dispute-resolution/dispute...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/9/15767986/taylor-swift-appl...

And honestly, for some of this stuff, I understand Spotify’s position. At the same time, their willingness to promote fake artists with copy cat songs to circumvent paying royalties to BMG or such is why musicians are eating ramen and only a handful of musicians are eating steak.

There's a ton of stuff like this, where the original artist isn't on Spotify, but these "covers" are:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6t6VE10ixs4wyyIgAbJzvz

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6RuIbUAQK9fmBq08AbY6XE

Honestly, I wish Spotify would stop "improving" their client and use that money to get more artists on their service.

Ugh… that last one. 65m listens followed by 40m and so on. This is exactly my point. Who the hell is this?

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