What Spotify’s artificial streaming policy means for RouteNote artists
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Legitimate artists’ music/earnings will not be affected by Spotify’s increased measures against artificial streaming.
RouteNote artists needn’t be concerned by Spotify policy changes which will restrict artificial streaming on the music streaming service. It is our guarantee that as Spotify and RouteNote increase their measures against artificial streaming, all non-violating artists will continue to have access to the same powerful music distribution tools from RouteNote that they know and love with no impact to their earnings.
Spotify will charge distributors and labels as a preventative measure to ensure that labels and music distributors work to prevent artificial streaming from the artists who use them. RouteNote may pass along these charges to violating artists who engage in artificial streaming. We guarantee that any charges made will not impact RouteNote users who didn’t take part in processes that violate Spotify’s policies. As always, we are dedicated to all of the legitimate artists at every level around the world and will continue to run our top notch streaming services as before.
RouteNote has always worked to protect legitimate artists with measures against artificial streaming and will continue to work with Spotify to prevent bad actors.
Protect your music from Artificial Streaming
We all want more plays on our music, but you must ensure your streams are coming naturally. Some third-party services will claim to provide a boost to your streams in exchange for compensation. However, many of these services are using illegitimate practices.
Services offering “pay for plays” type services are often offering artificial streams, which risks your music being removed from services like Spotify and a hold on your revenues.
Spotify themselves state: “If a service finds that you (or a third party hired by you or on your behalf) have boosted play counts through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means (digital bots, “click farms”, payment for placement on playlists, etc.), the service may permanently remove your entire catalogue.”
For more information on what artificial streaming is and how to look out for fraudulent services that offer it, read Spotify’s articles below:
https://artists.spotify.com/help/article/third-party-services-that-guarantee-streams
Don’t let your hard work go to waste, avoid using these services to ensure your music performance is coming from real fans and new listeners. You can find loads of advice on boosting your music career online on the RouteNote Blog. Start with our article on ‘How to get plays on Spotify‘.
Late last year, Spotify confirmed a number of changes to their policies and royalty payouts. In an attempt to redirect more revenue towards legitimate artists, changes included a minimum royalty threshold, restrictions on non-musical noise content, and a crackdown on artificial streaming. Read more about Spotify’s royalty changes in our article below.
Thanks for this clear update! It’s reassuring to know that RouteNote artists won’t be affected by Spotify’s new measures against artificial streaming. It’s great that any charges will be handled by RouteNote and not passed down to artists. This post does a good job explaining how important it is to keep streams legitimate and avoid those sketchy third-party services. Really appreciate the links to further reading, too! Keep up the great work.
I am a military officer and a master of arts in music with specialization in music business. Please how do I start earning from my composition in military and secular music. What are the steps needed by to start earning royalty and get playlisting with Spotify
Glad to hear you’re thinking of using RouteNote! Sign up for free today and start uploading your music: https://www.routenote.com/rn/signup_page/design
What about those of us who have had music removed for “artificial streaming” but haven’t actually DONE it? A band I am in has had all its music removed for alleged artificial streaming. We create music for fun using Bandlab and have no interest in making a profit but we use Routenote to (hopefully) help protect our music from counterfeiting. None of us have any idea how this artificial streaming could have happened, or on “which” platform and RouteNote have not been able to provide an explanation other than “stock responses” so we are really stumped. Platforms are going to lose a lot of users if innocent artists are targeted 
. If our songs have been artificially streamed, we need to know how and by who/what so we can protect our music in future.