Latest lawsuit brings the streaming giant into disrepute again
A class action lawsuit brought against Spotify alleges the company failed to act on fraudulent bot farming.
The claim was filed on the 2nd Nov 2025 by rapper RBX and finds the platform’s most streamed artist, Drake, at the centre of the scandal.
What You Need To Know
The suit claims that billions of bot-generated streams of, in particular Drake songs, originated from locations via ghost accounts. One example detailed how approximately 250,000 streams attributed to UK listeners were actually based in Turkey via a VPN service.
Spotify — and others — are named as defendants in the lawsuit for failure to police inflated streaming numbers. Drake’s name does not appear.
In a statement, the streaming giant said: “We cannot comment on pending litigation. However, Spotify in no way benefits from the industry-wide challenge of artificial streaming. We heavily invest in always-improving, best-in-class systems to combat it and safeguard artist payouts with strong protections like removing fake streams, withholding royalties, and charging penalties.”
Last year, Drake also filed a petition against the site, alleging Universal Music Group (UMG) — his label — and Spotify artificially inflated the diss track Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar.
Stanisland Magazine 
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