Spotify Took Off My Genuine Streams

[Lukahills]

My first song release as an independent artist I released December 6th. It’s been 2 months since release and Spotify for artists shows that over 1000 streams have been flagged for artificial streams. And have been removed from my song. But they were all 100% authentic streams. I have proof of a viral Instagram reel about my song on the same day my plays spiked for a couple days while slowly rolling off. When looking at the location of where the streams came from they were all coming from genuine locations like united stated, the UK, Canada and other main places. It’s not right as an independent artist I have to worry about my song streams being taken off or my song being taken down due to a spike in plays while creating online content promoting my songs when it’s all genuine and there’s no proof you guys can show me that would say they are artificial. I was told to contact my distribution to get it fixed by showing proof to distrokid (Spotifys Partnered Distribution) that all of the streams i gained in those few days were not artificial by the so called "human" in Spotify's support chat thats OBVIOUSLY a robot that was just copy and pasting the same thing word for word that the last "person" told me. After contacting my Distribution multiple times and even showing screenshots of the viral video on the same day of the spike, i keep being told that they cannot do anything about it and that its on Spotify's side. but when i talk to Spotify its just a back and forth game. i am ANNOYED and beyond FRUSTRATED. How am i supposed to promote songs on TikTok and Instagram when on Spotify's "artificial streams" page it says that a sudden spike on a random day of the week can cause it to be flagged for artificial. my song spiked only a few hundred plays WITH PROOF but nothing is being changed.