Spotify Vs Distrokid Vs Artists

Spotify Has recently Removed Over 750,000 songs from their platforms Due to “Artificial streams and Unnatural Behaviors” with no warning.

Distrokid Claims Spotify Is removing the songs but coincidentally, The removals are only happening to Distrokid Artists.

Artists are upset and started a petition which you can find here

To try and have Spotify Re Upload those songs.

Tons of artists are losing trust in both platforms and are advising each other to switch distributors. Do we blame them? Its already bad enough artists aren’t getting what they deserve from royalties.

Just as were all recovering from a bad 2020 year, Spotify has chosen the penalize artists. The timing for Spotify to choose New Years Day to dampen an artists ego is horrendous to say the least.

Rumor has it that Distrokid Owes alot of Money to Spotify which could be the reason for the targeted agenda. As a result, artists are paying the price.

In an unfair manner, Artists lost all the hard work on music they’ve been promoting themselves and networking on social media.

As a Curator Myself, I am hearing tons of stories from artists having issues. Surprisingly they've all been distrokid artists. Which leaves us to believe theres something going on behind the scenes.

It cant be possible that this issue is only happening for one distribution company. Although Distrokid claims its not only them.

I’ve been reaching out to multiple artists to get more insight and my very first question now is “who is your distributor”.

I’ve been advised from many Industry insiders, you can get your song back on the platform but you would need to re upload the song with a new distributor.

You’d need all the same metadata, cover art and ISRC. Hopefully, you can get your numbers back but you would definitely get your song re uploaded to the platform.

Thats if you choose to continue to upload to Spotify, which a-lot of artists are even reluctant to do that.

As all this chaos ensues, I personally was made aware that my song “You Know How I like It” has been removed.

https://fanlink.to/YouKnowHowILikeIt

This song was a old release and Wasn’t currently being promoted. So I am on the same boat with artists looking for answers.

If your an artist that has been affected by this war between Spotify and Distrokid and want further information you can contact Spotify for artists for more details below.

More then Likely they will tell you a copy and paste answer about Artificial Unnatural behaviors but I would definitely reach out to both parties to see what they say about your release.

I’d also reach out to any curator you’ve worked with and see what they say about their strategies. Dont be alarmed, You didn’t do anything wrong. It could be anything that Spotify or Distrokid considers unnatural behavior.

Distrokid even went as far as telling people to not tell family and friends to listen to your music on repeat. I think thats unfair as well since independent artists rely on each listen to build up a fanbase.

Heres Distrokid response to all of this CLICK BELOW

I love my community, I will try my best on my end to find out more insight and information to share with my audience.

Feel free to contact me at @caljamonit if you have any further concerns

Suggestions

Look for another Distributor such as Amuse, Symphonic Distribution, Unite Masters or Trac.co

Upload your taken down songs. Make sure you use the same ISRC, Cover Art, and Metadata for re uploads.

As an artist, you should always have your own playlist and network with fans and artists.

Share your music with your playlist and build your own fanbase. Also, Person to person fans will gradually help you build momentum from zero.

A good strategy has always been to try and get as many people to follow you on Spotify. As well as getting a ton of presaves before a release.

In regards to Marketing going foward. I suggest not doing any promos until all of this gets cleared up especially if your using Distrokid.

Its really hard to determine what curators do what but I will do my due diligence and revisit every curator I work with to see what they say.

At this point its real ashame Spotify and Distrokid have chosen to penalize Artists when they could've done things differently to not affect all independent artists.

All we can do now is move foward, do research and move over to a new Distributor. Good Luck every one, please reach out with any information your also recieving.

You can reach out to me as well to discuss networking. Happy New Years Artists. Don't get discouraged. Keep making music, and Keep Releasing it. You will get everything your working hard for.

CAL.