Drake Is Linked To A Spotify Class Action Case For Getting Billions Of False Streams
Drake is once again embroiled in a contentious court dispute!
The artist and rapper is accused of using a fraudulent plan to manipulate his Spotify streams and reportedly profited from it to the tune of millions of dollars.
Just one month has passed since Drake’s defamation case against Universal Music Group (UMG) was unsuccessful. He claimed that by promoting Kendrick Lamar’s song “They Not Like Us,” the record company was helping to spread untrue stories about him.
Drake is alleged to have increased his music streams by using bot accounts.
In a class-action lawsuit against Spotify, Aubrey Drake Graham—better known by his stage name, Drake—was mentioned.
According to the lawsuit, the streaming service purposefully ignored the alleged streaming fraud occurring on the site.
Snoop Dog’s cousin, Eric Dwayne Collins (RBX), accused Spotify of permitting earnings to be embezzled from other artists and distributed to unworthy ones.
He said that “a significant, non-trivial portion of Drake’s approximately 37,000,000,000 Spotify streams between January 2022 and September 2025 were inauthentic and seemed to be the product of a vast network of Bot Accounts.”
Collins claimed that Drake concealed the source of his streams by employing VPNs. At least 250,000 streams of Drake’s “No Face” originated in Turkey in 2024, he said, but were falsely geo-mapped to the UK.
He also stated that “even though those artists had far more ‘users’ than Drake, Drake’s music accumulated far higher total streams compared to other highly-streamed artists.” Accordingly, “it is estimated that hundreds of millions of dollars in streaming revenue would have been distributed to legitimate Rights Holders but for the fraudulent boosting of Drake’s music,” according to the lawsuit.
Drake was the sole artist identified as one of the recipients of the bogus streams, while not being listed as a defendant, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The lawsuit, which was submitted on Sunday to a federal court in California, claims that Spotify has refused to stop the illegal streaming because it wants to “grow the business and increase stock prices.”
According to the lawsuit, “Spotify can sell more ads and report more profits if it has more users, including fraudulent users, which increases the alleged value provided to shareholders.”
Spotify Refused to Profit From False Streams
A Spotify spokesperson has spoken out about the impending legal turmoil, but Drake has not yet responded.
According to the representative, the streaming service “in no way benefits from the industry-wide challenge of artificial streaming,” even though it is unable to “comment on pending litigation.”
The spokesman went on to say that Spotify takes pride in its cutting-edge algorithms that eliminate phony streams to guarantee that each artist receives a fair payment. As a result, they categorically denied the idea that phony streams are helping the streaming service.
Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) was unsuccessful.
Drake is included in the class-action lawsuit more than four weeks after the songwriter’s fight against UMG ended in defeat.
Drake sued UMG for defamation in January 2025, claiming that the latter’s song contained disparaging remarks made by Kendrick Lamar. But the presiding judge dismissed the lawsuit in October.
The Blast claims that Drake has no legal authority to sue over song lyrics, which is why the lawsuit was dismissed.
A representative for Drake stated following the decision that the rapper is not going down without a fight. The rapper’s legal team plans to “appeal today’s ruling, and we look forward to the Court of Appeals reviewing it,” the representative stated.
Drake is criticized by UMG for attempting to “heal his wounds” after he “lost a rap battle.”
Drake was accused by the record company of being resentful over losing a rap fight he started before the dispute between UMG and Drake was dismissed.
