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Russ is without doubt one of the most outspoken artists towards the leisure enterprise. The unbiased recording artist has expressed his frustrations with the music business. Contemplating Drake’s authorized proceedings with Common Music Group and Spotify, he shared his ideas.
On Friday (Dec. 20), Russ tweeted, “Spotify is aware of who’s faking their streams lol nonetheless, they’re not gonna ever [in my opinion] publicly expose any main labels as a result of potential penalties. Main labels may retaliate by pulling their high artists music from Spotify. That will clearly diminish Spotify’s worth and attractiveness to subscribers.”
Later within the publish, he acknowledged, “Spotify simply punishes them behind the scenes (removes pretend streams and removes the track from playlists) as a result of they prioritize (is smart) sustaining their entry to main label content material over publicly confronting stream manipulation, which primarily makes them a ‘hostage’ of the key labels. Principally Spotify publicly outing main labels is a lose lose for everybody concerned.”
The dialog got here following extra updates from Spotify and UMG making public statements relating to their pending authorized proceedings with Drake. On Friday (Dec. 20), a spokesperson for the streaming service acknowledged, “UMG and Spotify have by no means had any association wherein UMG ‘charged Spotify licensing charges 30 p.c decrease than its traditional licensing charges for ‘Not Like Us’ in change for Spotify affirmatively recommending [‘Not Like Us’],’ together with ‘to customers who’re trying to find different songs and artists.’”
Whereas identified for having controversial takes on the music business, followers are seemingly agreeing to his latest take. The dialog round fraudulent streaming has been on the rise since Drake submitted his authorized petitions. After his controversial rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, Drake has been comparatively quiet musically.
The pending case has seemingly put a pause on his future releases, together with his joint album with fellow OVO member PARTYNEXTDOOR. The forthcoming R&B-leaning album has but to be given a launch date.