Spotify confirms autoplay payola; artists who do it get lower royalties

[Gaia]

9 hours ago, besaid said:

Yeah now THIS is suspicious. Small Talk is one of the biggest bombs in pop history. Obviously it was placed at #1 on Today's Top Hits via payment. 

Do you have a brain? It was placed at #1 on TTH the day of release, like most major releases. Do you think it went #1 on TTH after being out for a month not in Top 200? 

[PoisonPill]

On 3/8/2023 at 5:33 PM, Queen Of Slay said:

someone get kim petras on it!!!! 

Alright let's stay in reality, autoplay helps but it can't work miracles

[Montreal]

21 hours ago, Mr.Link said:

Is there a legal way to force Spotify to report autoplayed numbers so that they’re not counted for the charts?

why are people so serious over this? you guys want to make everything into a big issue smh

[Luckitty]

and the sabrina stans tried to convince us that nonsense song was organic 

[Letemtalk]

20 hours ago, WitnessOblivia said:

Too bad Katy won't use this..greedy *****!

 

What makes people think there will be regulations? They still haven't fixed the mass/bulk buying of songs (or 400302 remixes) by fans through artists' websites.

Katy got quite a lot of autoplay support on YouTube over the years, so might not need as much on Spotify as others.

[Mr.Link]

2 hours ago, Montreal said:

why are people so serious over this? you guys want to make everything into a big issue smh

No one is being serious. This is the charts section of a music forum, if that doesn’t give you a hint…
 

13 hours ago, besaid said:

Taylor is the most payola'd act of all time.

If you only knew the tricks artists pulled in the 90s-early 00s when radio basically dictated what was a hit and what wasn’t. If a mainstream song “flopped” it was because radio blacklisted it or because the label couldn’t afford to pay anymore payola. 

[More Than A Melody]

On 3/9/2023 at 1:36 PM, besaid said:

And why is everyone focusing on Ariana when it's crystal clear that Midnights was algorithmically boosted as well? Not just one song but that entire album was clearly payola'd onto everything. I don't even listen to her music and got a big banner update telling me her album was out, with a "listen now?" button or something like that to take me straight to it. Taylor is the most payola'd act of all time.

 

It's known that I'm not Taylor's biggest fan but I think everyone who stans mainstream artists needs to collectively sit down because we can all pull on each other's wigs. Literally all artists who have the potential of reaching big numbers have had some sort of help by Spotify boosted by their label's $$$, we're gonna have to sit down and analyze who had more or less and it's impossible with zero actual information.

 

If your song doesn't hit it won't hit it doesn't matter how much payola your label puts on Spotify. Niall Horan tried to do it with his new song for a week and it failed colossally.

 

Wednesday February 22nd

153 -4

Heaven Niall Horan

25

149

6

1,150,616

PAYOLA STARTS - Thursday February 23rd. DAY 1

(Impacts in some territories cause of timezone)

65 +88

Heaven Niall Horan

25

153

7

1,611,816

Friday February 24th. Day 2

(Impact is now worldwide)

22 +43

Heaven Niall Horan

22

65

8

2,699,356

Saturday February 25th. Day 3

25 -3

Heaven Niall Horan

22

22

9

2,595,371

Sunday February 26th. Day 4

29 -4

Heaven Niall Horan

22

25

10

2,253,516

Monday February 27th. Day 5

25 +4

Heaven Niall Horan

22

29

11

2,453,320

Tuesday February 28th. Day 6

24 +1

Heaven Niall Horan

22

25

12

2,486,982

Wednesday March 1st. Day 7

22 +2

Heaven Niall Horan

22

24

13

2,645,963

PAYOLA ENDS - Thursday March 2nd

(Impacts in some territories cause of timezone)

41 -19

Heaven Niall Horan

22

22

14

2,079,047

Friday March 3rd

(Impact is now worldwide)

92 -51

Heaven Niall Horan

22

41

15

1,574,151

 

It did nothing for him on other platforms and the song still charted outside of top 60 that week.

 

Payola alone can do absolutely nothing. The artists still have to have impact and the songs have to resonate with the audience.

Edited March 10, 2023 by More Than A Melody

[Johnny Jacobs]

Lipa beauty is upon us ya'll 

[MusicLoverDude]

Why are members of Congress caring more about this than issues WAY more important?