 It's the Metwork! So the story I was going to talk about about Spotify and an article that came out regarding the title is Hate Your Favorite Band's Latest Song. On Spotify it might be a fake and the whole so the idea of it is speaking to bands who've had songs come up on their artist profile, they didn't release, didn't sanction to be released, it's not their actual song. So people are actually posing as these artists and submitting via a distributor that is a song by this said band so it goes on to their profile and obviously they get all the streams for it and they get all the money for it as well so they don't go for like the really really big artists because obviously that's too risky but they can go for artists that have got you know hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners even sometimes millions and you know reap the rewards from that. So one example is a band or a duo called TV Girl so a song was released which they didn't release it came up on their artist page as a new song it had some basics of like stock image artwork and it sounded nothing like anything other stuff and actually that went out to you know the hundreds of thousands of followers on Spotify and release radar. Suddenly they get all this like social medias like traffic from the audience like why on earth is this like this is your worst song ever and it's not even from them and so that the person who the person nor company who has put this song out is going to get all the streaming from that all the royalties of the hundreds of thousands of streams and if you do it with the right distributor like you find like a really small distributor who doesn't really you know do too much checking of what's submitted the message is really shoddy you could literally just claim the artist's profile and upload as them. So they used an distributor called Lacopola Music which is based in Barcelona so they were able to pose as this American duo and then there's a few more examples as well and I'll see obviously I was aware before about you know the fake streams and the bots and the fake playlists but actually posting as posing as real artists I thought that was wasn't something that I saw coming but it just makes sense and it seems unfortunately quite easy to do looking at how they've gone through it the process. So could an artist actually get fans from that? I know I can get streams right because I'm posing as the artist but could I get fans from that? So is it like more is it I'm getting on their profile and people think it's mine but does it ultimately click back to my profile? No you're literally just taking over that artist's page so you're getting the streams for that one particular song or you actually upload it yourself because you're getting over numbers from that artist. Got it. It's only at some if you if it is then flagged eventually Spotify will duplicate the artist page and transfer it over but it took like two weeks to TV Girl to get this resolved and to get them to make you know take it off their page. You know what that makes so much sense actually though because there's so many artists that I personally deal with that have had that issue when and not trying to do it on purpose they're like yo they have my profile on the wrong page and I'm trying to get it off so it actually makes sense but that's like a thing. It happens to me as well when I'm listening on release radar to stuff and like well it sounds like nothing I've ever listened to then I go on and realize that it's actually you know a band of the same name that I follow and that happens as well even though even though they've got a different profile it can even be that it can even be like maybe the algorithm just associates the name with the with the players doesn't actually look at is a separate page or not so one if a band is called you know XYZ it could put any any song by any XYZ artist onto this release radar for example like is it that intelligent that it knows difference between the certain artists with the same name I don't think it does. That's crazy because it's interesting because many of these things that we've talked about before are legitimate loopholes that people have found right and no one's thinking about our discovering but in this situation it's more like bad customer service it's actually an issue that so many artists haven't spoken up and had spoken up about and had but someone just said hey you know what I can just use this this way so like Spotify is very aware that this this happens all the time they're already aware of that they just fortunately apparently haven't had that many people abuse it or at least were not um not understanding that someone would intentionally abuse it it takes so long for them to take it down anyway I'll take action that is really an interest of the people to do it because they've got two weeks of streams they can collect before it gets moved yeah so yeah it's a it's a real issue