Impostors in Release Radar

[Darxeal]

Release Radar gives you tracks made by artists that have the exact same NAME as an artist you listen to, but they're a DIFFERENT artists.

This encourages scammers to set their artist name to a popular artist, and then showing up in people's Release Radar.

For example, in this Reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoStepsFromHell/comments/jwgjdt/another_tsfh_artist_page_has_appeared_on_s...

someone has been listening to a track, thinking it's been made by their favorite artist, but in fact it's been a completely different artist with ONLY ONE song on their profile, so they couldn't have possibly been listening to them before.

This has happened multiple times to me too, with the artist "Mako".

The Release Radar algorithms seems to compare artist's name strings instead of their IDs.

[Billy-J]

Hey @Darxeal, thanks for reaching out to the Community!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'd recommend reporting this content following the steps provided here. 

Hope this helps!

[Darxeal]

Those steps will only report individual content, it will not prevent future mistakes.
The point is that there is a bug in Spotify algorithms that needs to be fixed.

[kb3uoe]

I've gotten the same issue before. I pretty much exclusively listen to death metal, so when I hear a techno/dubstep/whatever song come on, from an artist with the same name but an entirely different genre, something's obviously wrong.

[Billy-J]

Hey @kb3uoe, @Darxeal,

As mentioned in my last reply, you can follow the steps a bit further down and select I STILL NEED HELP. This will bring you to a contact form where you can explain the issue at hand. The team responsible appreciates such reports and will happily investigate this further.

Hope that helps.