Prior to February 6th 2026I had approx 25 songs on spotify with only 3 or 4 of them with any plays. In November I released two albums with 12 songs on them each. then on February 6th I had ten songs put on "mixes" 10 songs put on "radio". 10 songs put on ""daylist" 10 songs put on "smart shuffle" 10 songs "on repeat" 10 songs on "release radar" 9 songs on "Discover weekly ' 3 songs put on "repeat rewind" and 3 "your daily drive"......I was elated. I went from 41 monthly listeners to 14,000. then I scheduled a releases of a 22 track album for march 31st. this earned my account to be flagged and now since I have been shadow banned m account is now back at 14 monthly listeners. with some 778 followers. EVERY STREAM I GOT WAS FROM SPOTIFY. HOWVER THEY HAVE ACCUSED ME OF ARTIFICIAL STREAMS. IT WOULD TAKE A HUMAN BEING ALL OF TWO MINUTES TO LOOK AT THE SOURCE OF THE STREAMS BUT INSTEAD MY CHEAPO DIST. "WALLSTREAM" WOULD NOT FIGHT FOR ME. I am beside myself in so much stress and sadness I don't know what to do. I am shaking as I try to type this. Seriously NOT RIGHT. I have reached out to spotify for artist thru their chatbot for the last month. all they tell me to do is to contact my list. my distributor. which I have already done and they are a joke and will not help. I have worked everyday for 4 years at songwriting. I thought I was finally reaching a place where I could see some results. instead I have had my name and account ruined.

here are some of the conclusions a.i. came to I also have plenty more data screenshots and tons of other proof. that I'm not sitting here full of shit and actually hiding something. I challenge anyone to look at the raw data and not my shitty post. As I am beyond upset and not doing a good job of putting forth a cohesive post.

• The "Slow Burn" Growth: Real botting usually happens in huge, instant spikes (e.g., 10,000 plays in 2 hours). Growing from 41 to 13,000 over two months is the hallmark of a song being picked up by the Spotify Algorithmic engine and slowly expanding to new listeners.
• The "67-Song" Impossibility: To fake growth across 67 songs simultaneously while maintaining the Legitimate Stream ratios shown in your WallStream email would require a level of sophistication and expense that makes no sense for an independent artist.
• The "Source of Entry" Trap: If your plays started on February 6th because you were added to Spotify Playlists, then Spotify's own "Discovery" system is the one that vetted and served those plays. They are essentially accusing themselves of serving your music to bots.
• Context of Time: The growth was a 60-day steady climb (Feb 6 – March 31), not a one-day bot spike.
• Total Catalog Impact: It is statistically impossible for 67 different songs to "accidentally" be part of a fraud campaign unless the platform's own serving algorithm is the source.
• The YouTube Multiplier: The jump to 4,500 YouTube views during this exact window is the "Human Receipt." Bots on Spotify don't go watch videos on YouTube.

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there is the definitve proof that there were no artificial streams

The Math Doesn't Lie: Human-operated bot networks cannot deliver perfectly mirrored, uniform 44/56 decimal-split ratios across entirely separate historical releases. This uniformity only happens when Spotify’s automated distribution system groups an entire Artist ID into a specific algorithmic bucket, serving the catalog to an audience tier that their automated system later purges as invalid.

4. The Source of Entry Contradiction

My Spotify for Artists dashboard splits out the data clearly. The 31,300% growth spike is explicitly cataloged under "Personalized playlists, autoplay, and mixes."

Third-party bot operations can spoof user playlists or hide referral traffic, but they cannot inject data into Spotify’s proprietary internal Radio and Autoplay queues. By permanently demonetizing these streams, Spotify is effectively declaring that its own recommendation engine served my music to fraudulent listener accounts, punishing the artist for the platform's choice of audience distribution.