If you received an "Artificial Streaming" notice from Spotify, that means Spotify informed us that most of the streams on one or more of your tracks are artificial.
For more information regarding Spotify's Guidelines, please read this article.
To avoid this in future, please be mindful of any paid services you may be using to include songs in playlists or boost listenership through a “marketing service” that guarantees a certain number of streams.
It's likely you, or someone you work with, used one of these marketing services or was added to one of these playlists. It's also likely you didn't know the marketing service (or playlist) that you paid for was generating fraudulent streams. We know that's a bummer.
Please note that this affects tracks from all distributors. It has nothing to do with DistroKid. We are just passing along the information provided to us by Spotify and we haven't been given any additional information from Spotify other than what has already been provided.
The good news: if you are not using promotional services, you can re-upload your song(s) to Spotify using the same ISRC.
A new upload will make sure a new URI can be assigned to your release in Spotify for a fresh start. You can head to distrokid.com/new to start this process.
To provide feedback about any promotional services you have been utilizing, or any playlists you suspect may be related to this activity, please use this feedback form so we can collect, review, and pass the information along.
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