It's strange that in some spots Spotify says "we notified the company of fake streams" but in the next breath they say "we didn't tell them to take it down" and "there's no such thing as punishment." So wtf ARE you doing? Just letting them know about the fake streams for fun? So many people are being removed for "100% fake streams" which is clearly bs. I want some damn answers. I'm doubtful we'll get any tho, so let's get to selling straight to our fans instead.

I got one strike and recently got a warning on a song that didn’t get any bot plays at all, but a song that got added to a botted playlists without my consent hasn’t gotten flagged. Very strange on how it’s happening

it’s happening to all distributors . Soundcloud just took all my songs down. And still haven’t replied to support so I just unsubscribed. we all need to ban up and get a class action lawsuit going

I'm banned from making instagram comments for saying distrokid are corrupt in a comment on a distrokid post. can't even appeal.

What distributor do you recommend??

My main issue with them is their chat bot you cannot talk to a real person they just keep having you on those chat robot things you got to literally go to the moon and back to talk to a real person

Dude all my music got taken off of Spotify and they are trying to tell me the same thing I didn’t realize this was happening to a lot of people

Man my first album got take down. And honestly I think I'm done with distrokid.

Sadly, I might be doing the same thing pretty soon. I'm uploading an album with previously released tracks that I released before and they're telling me that I can only release a track with samples from Splice, Sound, and such when only a month ago, I released that track before with the same samples and they didn't have a problem.

Pls when is Kanye Wests streaming platform starting?

I am on Tunecore and everything is fine right now but this shit is really scary bro

I also got rid of distrokid i started using ever since it looks promising but they're kinda slow

hello sir.....please help me, why hasn't my release on distrokid been released yet, it's been 2 weeks?

I been watching your videos😂 asking my self , why this guy still on distro. Took you long enough.... . .

and IN ADDITION they access your Spotify account without your permission.

“Indeed, the situation might be simpler than it appears. Emerging websites are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) more than ever to manage and operate their platforms. The allure of automation is enticing for developers, but it comes with its own set of challenges. These challenges often seem to be overlooked as developers rush to release their products. Chances are, the representative you were trying to get a response from was an AI. It’s better not to answer than to give an inadequate response. Without sufficient human oversight, these automated systems can potentially lead to unforeseen complications.”

Symphonic Distribution is another place to release music in case you need it

So there are a few things about this that I don't understand and this is why I prefer companies with live support - at least for situations as severe as this... With a live rep you could email screenshots of your ad campaigns, correspondence with Spotify and other supporting documents to show that there's no foul play involved and move right along... They could also email you a warning and just pass the fine along to end user if it ever happens and treat them like strikes - so many strikes and you're kicked from the platform... The worst part of all this is that I've been hearing people having this issue, who have run legit ad campaigns, just for Distrokid and/or Tunecore to then withhold their earnings - even thought there was no foul play... Hopefully you all ban together and do a class action lawsuit.

They just did this to me. I have never used fake streams. I reached out to Spotify and no one cares. It's sad that us artist have to go through that when we just want our music to be heard. They make us pay them all this money and we can't even get a couple dollars 😂😢

amuse does it too now.

This is driving me fucking insane it’s pissing me off. Do I use it or not for fucks sake dude. Fuck!

Just switched to Distrokid. Now I'm scared that I did a mistake😱

I hope they won't end up being like the lame soundcloud Wich is why now all djs left and they now with low quality mr everybody as customer

so they're gunna screw over their own customers... to avoid a 10$ fee ?

Tell that to Kimsunghoon and the Trump songs she is making.