Spotify Slams Drake’s Claim That It ‘Artificially Inflated’ Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Streams

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/spotify-slams-drake-claim-inflated-kendrick-lamar-streams-1236256265/

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  1. > In response, a Spotify spokesperson said: “Spotify has no economic incentive for users to stream ‘Not Like Us” over any of Drake’s tracks. Only one of Spotify for Artists’ tools, Marquee, was purchased on behalf of the song, for €500 to promote the track in France. Marquee is a visual ad that is disclosed to users as a Sponsored Recommendation.”

  2. Did they put the claim in a chokehold and punish it WWE style too??

  3. Spotify slams Drake for slamming Spotify over inflating streams for a Kendrick song slamming Drake.

  4. Same dude whose face was literally on every genre music tab on Spotify pushing his album lmao

  5. It feels futile to ask at this point, but can we stop saying “slams” in news headlines

  6. Lmao we all knew it was going to come out that Not Like Us wasn’t inflated. Shit was getting played at little kids bday parties. Bunch of kids singing A-Minooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    Fuck Drake is a bitch

  7. Drake the type o f dude to sue someone for a diss track

  8. He overestimates his own popularity and underestimated Kendrick’s.
    Drake is more “Popular” but he had the machine behind him. Thing is, Kendrick is unironically one of the greatest artists of this era, I wouldn’t even put him in my personal top 10 but their music really is apples and oranges.
    Drake saw this ass Biggie vs Pac 2.0 when it was closer to Black Thought vs N’Sync. Iykyk

  9. I’m a simple man, I see a lazily written headline with the word “slam”, I downvote (and don’t click the link)

  10. I can almost picture the board of directors at Spotify unanimously voting to “slam” Drake.

  11. People care more about this than they do about coral bleaching, what a world

  12. lol dayum Drake, you trying to write homie’s next hit for him, already? Just shut up man.

  13. Anyone who has used Spotify and suddenly had Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, or Gracie Abrams inject themselves into your streams as “suggestions” knows he’s not wrong.

    Not Like Us is still great, and would have shut Drake down without the heating a la TikTok, but that doesn’t mean Drake is wrong.

  14. *The famous actor we once knew is looking paranoid and now spiraling*

  15. I mean, they aren’t going to say they did it if they did. I’m just wondering why it took em so long to respond

  16. It started at 12 million views, great song and video and was only 16 a week later when I saw this I was suspicious, but I just listened 3more times, sorry Drake you the bitch this time

  17. Drake is easily one of the artists who gets pushed the hardest by labels and streaming services. This entire thing is a massive self-report imo.

  18. Kendrick was right when he said Drake not like us. Nobody in rap, that comes to mind, has sued another artist because of a diss track and here is Drake going all out. I thought Drake said he won the battle is unbothered, this most def isn’t what unbothered looks like.

  19. What a crying little bitch. Just take the L, Drake. His mouth is steady writing checks that he can’t cash and that usually ends in someone getting fucked up in some way, shape, or form.

  20. Spotify is trash. Drake is trash. Everything is trash.

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