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    Spotify Denies Drake's “Far-Fetched” Claims That It Colluded With UMG To Increase “Not Like Us”

    James EvendenBy James EvendenDecember 20, 20242 Mins Read
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    A number of weeks after Drake claimed Spotify supplied Common Music Group “drastically decreased charges” than typical to artificially enhance “Not Like Us,” the streaming firm has lastly responded. On Friday (Dec. 20), the music platform denied the Canadian star’s “far-fetched” and “speculative” accusations.

    “Spotify has no financial incentive for customers to stream ‘Not Like Us’ over any of Drake’s tracks,” the streaming big shared in an announcement, per Selection. “Solely certainly one of Spotify for Artists’ instruments, Marquee, was bought on behalf of the tune, for €500 to advertise the observe in France. Marquee is a visible advert that’s disclosed to customers as a Sponsored Advice.”

    A spokesperson for the corporate additional famous, “UMG and Spotify have by no means had any association through which UMG ‘charged Spotify licensing charges 30 % decrease than its typical licensing charges for ‘Not Like Us’ in alternate for Spotify affirmatively recommending [“Not Like Us”],’ together with ‘to customers who’re trying to find different songs and artists.’”

    In Drake’s first of two petitions, he claimed that Siri — Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant — was to “purposely misdirect customers” to “Not Like Us” beneath the course of UMG. The go well with mentioned that when followers looked for Licensed Lover Boy, the rapper’s sixth studio album, they might as an alternative be really helpful the aforementioned tune by Lamar, which contained lyrics like, “Licensed Lover Boy? Licensed pedophiles.”

    UMG was a lot faster to answer Drake, whose OVO Sound label operates beneath a three way partnership with Republic Data. The music company burdened that it will by no means “do something to undermine any of its artists.” A consultant added, “No quantity of contrived and absurd authorized arguments on this pre-action submission can masks the truth that followers select the music they wish to hear.”

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    50 Cent, nevertheless, isn’t shopping for these claims. On Monday’s (Dec. 16) airing of the “Flagrant” podcast, the New York native mentioned, “All the things he mentioned [UMG] did in that lawsuit, they did it.”



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