In the complaint, RBX points to “voluminous information” which he says proves that a significant percentage of Drizzy’s streams were “inauthentic and appeared to be the work of a sprawling network of Bot Accounts.”
RBX alleges that over a four-day period in 2024, over 250,000 streams of Drake’s song “No Face” originated in Turkey “but were falsely geomapped through the coordinated use of VPNs to the United Kingdom in [an] attempt to obscure their origins.”
The “Remember Me?” rapper even claims that “a large percentage” of accounts streamed Drake’s music from “areas whose population could not support” such a large volume of streams, and that some streams originated in areas with “zero residential addresses.”
A spokesperson for Spotify refuted the allegations, saying in a statement: “We cannot comment on pending litigation. However, Spotify in no way benefits from the industry-wide challenge of artificial streaming.
“We heavily invest in always-improving, best-in-class systems to combat it and safeguard artist payouts with strong protections like removing fake streams, withholding royalties, and charging penalties.”
The statement continued: “Our systems are working: In a case from last year, one bad actor was indicted for stealing $10 million from streaming services, only $60,000 of which came from Spotify, proving how effective we are at limiting the impact of artificial streaming on our platform.”
Drake himself has yet to comment on the lawsuit.
The bombshell suit comes shortly after the OVO Sound boss saw his own lawsuit against Universal Music Group, which contained similar allegations of streaming fraud, get dismissed.
