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Apple vs. The World, ColdFusion and the weird world of fake artists on Spotify

Through The Web

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The Ranking Hacking Problem

Spotifieis just spotifived because, yo, you aptoted a vilo about sportyfive a few, few weeks ago. But it's about this weird problem, thisord tis t thing, that's bodifi has istthat the the ranking hacking almost er. So some guy, a ontek tog, as they do, went into tth the play list. He loked them up on gogal. They don't exist. None of these artists were getting millions and millions and millions of views or like, streams on this play list. Like there's some ithing was only one artist whois real in the top ten. All the other art

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