{"id":2132941,"date":"2025-11-03T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2132941"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:15:17","slug":"drake-accused-of-earning-billions-of-fraudulent-streams-in-class-action-suit-against-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/drake-accused-of-earning-billions-of-fraudulent-streams-in-class-action-suit-against-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Accused of Earning Billions of Fraudulent Streams in Class Action Suit Against Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">A new class action lawsuit against <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0535829\/\">Spotify<\/a> accuses the company of allowing massive amounts of streaming fraud on its platform, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1013044\/\">Drake<\/a> in particular allegedly benefiting from billions of artificial streams.<\/p>\n<p>In the suit, filed in federal court in California on Sunday, rapper Rbx, who is also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004879\/\">Snoop Dogg<\/a>\u2019s cousin, claims that Spotify is \u201call too happy to turn a blind eye\u201d to massive streaming fraud that takes place on the platform, which in turn siphons off royalties from other artists.<\/p>\n<p>Drake, who isn\u2019t named as a defendant in the complaint, is the only artist named in the suit. Rbx, whose real name is Eric Dwayne Collins, alleged that \u201cbetween January 2022 and September 2025, a substantial, non-trivial percentage of Drake\u2019s ~37,000,000,000 streams on Spotify during that timeframe were inauthentic and appeared to be the work of a sprawling network of Bot Accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Drake is the only artist highlighted in the lawsuit,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new class action lawsuit against Spotify accuses the company of allowing massive amounts of streaming fraud on its platform, with Drake in particular allegedly benefiting from billions of artificial streams. In the suit, filed in federal court in California on Sunday, rapper Rbx, who is also Snoop Dogg\u2019s cousin, claims that Spotify is \u201call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2132941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Drake-Accused-of-Earning-Billions-of-Fraudulent-Streams-in-Class.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132943,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132941\/revisions\/2132943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}