{"id":2325750,"date":"2026-03-13T01:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2325750"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:08:17","slug":"ankur-tewari-has-a-new-dozen-songs-on-dsps-but-he-didnt-record-any-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ankur-tewari-has-a-new-dozen-songs-on-dsps-but-he-didnt-record-any-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankur Tewari has a new dozen songs on DSPs \u2014 but he didn\u2019t record any of them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Indian singer-songwriter Ankur Tewari went to his Apple Music account this past weekend, he was shocked to find that his \u2018latest release\u2019 wasn\u2019t his new single \u2018Chand Takiye\u2019 but a track he didn\u2019t recognise that has been put out under his name.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Even more startling was that it wasn\u2019t only the one. About a dozen other songs, which had he nothing to do with, appeared on his profile on both Spotify and Apple Music. When he went to check the credits for the tunes on Spotify, he found that while he\u2019s listed as the main artist, \u201cHenry Hopsin\u201d has been attributed as the composer and lyricist, Hopsin as the producer, and Ali Music as the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tewari has never heard of anyone by that name. After he put up a story on his social media, a friend told him that Henry Hopsin has shown up under the credits of what seemed like AI-generated tunes attributed to other artists as well. Indeed, Music Ally found other tracks that list Indian acts such as Amit Trivedi, Reble and RUUH as the main artist, for which Hopsin and Ali Music have been credited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His team and he reached out to the DSPs to take the songs down, not all of which were removed by the middle of the week. Apart from Spotify and Apple Music, they\u2019re also available on Amazon Music and JioSaavn. \u201cI definitely think this is a symptom of the future of streaming,\u201d says Tewari.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the moment, it looks like the beginning of the end, because very soon, AI will [be used to] upload much more music, tagging whichever artist [the uploader] wants to tag. It might not be easy to bring down all these songs. It\u2019s probably time that as musicians, we head back to the basics and start looking at physical sales and distribution, whether it\u2019s vinyls, cassettes or CDs, and concentrate on our live [shows]. The future looks weird.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says he hasn\u2019t been able figure out who\u2019s behind the uploads of the set of tracks released under his name. Music Ally tried to trace the origin of one of the songs, \u2018Pagal Se Hum\u2019, by submitting it to an AI detection platform. It suggested that the single was generated using Suno \u2013 which is by no means definitive proof, of course. We reached to Suno\u2019s PR representatives for confirmation but did not receive a response until the time of publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

However, incidents such as these point to the alarming scope for streaming fraud and the helplessness of artists whose identities are used to engage in it. Like Tewari, they can only wait for DSPs to take down such tracks\u2014which are likely to stay up there until artists and their teams get to know of their existence in the first place.<\/p>\n