Spotify has responded to being named in Drake's legal filings, which alleged the music service worked with Universal Music Group to "artificially inflate" the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's "Not ...

“The Petition claims that an unidentified individual reported on a podcast that he used bots to achieve 30,000,000 streams on Spotify in the first days of the release of ‘Not Like Us.

Spotify clapped back at Drake after the rapper claimed that the music streaming platform purposely inflated Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.” “Contrary to the allegations in the ...

(I didn’t.) “Not Like Us” took over for the summer and I didn’t mind listening to it a thousand times a day. Anyway, just like Kendrick rapped, Spotify popped out at Drake in a recent ...

“Spotify has no economic incentive for users to stream ‘Not Like Us’ over any of Drake’s tracks,” a spokesperson said. “Only one of Spotify for Artists’ tools, Marquee, was purchased ...

The song recently crossed more than a billion streams on Spotify and was inducted into the streamer’s Billions Club. “Not Like Us” is at the center of a defamation suit from Drake against ...

The petition also accuses UMG of giving Spotify a lower licensing rate for “Not Like Us” in exchange for the streaming platform recommending the song to listeners. “UMG charged Spotify ...

"Not Like Us," the result of Lamar and Drake's weekslong ... The filing alleges the song was licensed to Spotify at a 30% discount in exchange for a boost in recommendations to users — the ...

The song has more than 914 million streams on Spotify and is up for five Grammy Awards. Lamar performed “Not Like Us” and his other body of work at his “Pop Out” show in Los Angeles on ...