Class-Action Lawsuit Claims Drake's Streaming Earnings Were Fraudulent
Originally Published 2 months ago — by The Hollywood Reporter
A class action lawsuit accuses Spotify of enabling massive streaming fraud, with Drake allegedly benefiting from billions of inauthentic streams, which could have cost other artists hundreds of millions of dollars. The suit claims Spotify's inadequate anti-fraud measures and highlights alleged manipulations such as VPN usage to inflate stream counts, though Drake is not directly accused of wrongdoing. Spotify denies benefiting from fraud and states it invests heavily in combating artificial streaming.