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UMG data analysis

I have been deeply involved in a conspiracy with the Freemasons and the Illuminati for years.

Be aware that they will likely send a coordinated flood of bots and paid agents to this comment section to discredit me. They manufacture a "herd mentality" by using automated downvotes on my posts and upvotes on their own comments to create a false illusion of skepticism.

Their primary tactic is to attack my character and sanity using repetitive phrases like "take your meds," "seek professional help," or "schizo post." If you see these specific insults here or on any other post, it is a telltale sign of Masonic interference and proof that the creator is actually telling the truth. They have previously targeted my posts, thrown tantrums when I refused to join them, and will continue trying to make me appear delusional.

Masonic Tantrum After I Exposed the Truth - Imgur

https://imgur.com/gallery/another-tantrum-J7HMK3H

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Study astrology, alchemy, and occult arts. Authorities dismiss them because they fear you gaining power.

Hidden cosmic connections prove this: the 12 apostles represent the 12 zodiac signs. The number 33 links Jesus’s lifespan, Masonic degrees, and your vertebrae. Kundalini energy rises from the spine monthly and begins when the moon passes through your zodiac.

To allow this energy to ascend, you must fast and avoid the seven deadly sins, which modern society weaponizes to block your spiritual awakening:

  • Lust: Media saturates culture with pornography, hookups, and adult platforms.
  • Gluttony: Overeating, sugar, caffeine, and acidic foods are promoted to close your third eye.
  • Greed: Corporate systems force consumerism and endless material hoarding.
  • Sloth: Digital distractions and processed diets breed physical and spiritual laziness.
  • Envy: Society trains us to crave the luxury, wealth, and status of elites.
  • Wrath: Media and politics condition populations to constantly hate each other.
  • Pride: Narcissism and social media validation keep the ego inflated and blind
u/Funk-N-Stuff — 1 day ago

The masons screwed me over then acted like they did me a favor, so now you can know their secrets

https://imgur.com/gallery/masonic-tantrum-after-i-exposed-truth-QOKvKS9

https://imgur.com/gallery/another-tantrum-J7HMK3H

Study astrology, alchemy, and occult arts. Authorities dismiss them because they fear you gaining power.

Hidden cosmic connections prove this: the 12 apostles represent the 12 zodiac signs. The number 33 links Jesus’s lifespan, Masonic degrees, and your vertebrae. Kundalini energy rises from the spine monthly and begins when the moon passes through your zodiac.

To allow this energy to ascend, you must fast and avoid the seven deadly sins, which modern society weaponizes to block your spiritual awakening:

  • Lust: Media saturates culture with pornography, hookups, and adult platforms.
  • Gluttony: Overeating, sugar, caffeine, and acidic foods are promoted to close your third eye.
  • Greed: Corporate systems force consumerism and endless material hoarding.
  • Sloth: Digital distractions and processed diets breed physical and spiritual laziness.
  • Envy: Society trains us to crave the luxury, wealth, and status of elites.
  • Wrath: Media and politics condition populations to constantly hate each other.
  • Pride: Narcissism and social media validation keep the ego inflated and blind
u/Funk-N-Stuff — 1 day ago

[OC] Spotify streaming data graphs and analysis

It looks like UMG is bot-farming its artists more than any other distribution company. They make money from the streams so they have a motive to do it.

Taylor Swift is an artist that Universal Music Group profited from by being the distribution pipeline for her music. This meant that every time someone streamed the original versions of her first six albums on Spotify or Apple Music, the money flowed through UMG’s distribution system before getting paid out to the owners of her masters. She has since signed to UMG but now owns her own masters. She has the most streams as the lead artist in Spotify history. She has more streams than the next 2 pop artists combined, Arianna Grande and Ed Sheeran, while only having 20.7% and 21.1% more monthly listeners, respectively. Ariana also uses UMG, while Ed Sheeran is signed to Warner Bros. If you order the data using total Spotify streams (lead artist and featured artist combined), then the top 3 pop artists are signed to UMG: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Arianna Grande. In fact, 8 of the top 10 most-streamed pop artists are signed to UMG or their subsidiary, and keep in mind that they make money from streams, so they have an incentive to bot farm.

I already made a post about Drake, but I will do a quick reiteration. His numbers look similar to Taylor Swift's. He has more total Spotify streams than the next two artists combined, Eminem and Kanye, while having approximately 20% more monthly listeners than either of them. It is because each bot registers as a single monthly listener while streaming music 24/7, creating a huge discrepancy between total streams and monthly listeners compared to other artists. UMG owns his catalog from 2019 and earlier, which many would agree that those albums are his most popular albums. Even the sales show the same.

The biggest revenue driver for master's owners is digital streaming royalties. Streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music pay out roughly 65% to 70% of their total revenue to music rights holders, and they pay proportionately to the amount of streams each artist has, so the more streams each artist has, the more money UMG gets and the less other artists get. Out of that payout, masters owners get roughly 50%, which is all the incentive UMG needs to bot farm their artists' music. Of the top 10 artists in the hip-hop genre, UMG either owns the catalog of, currently has, or formerly had 7 of them signed to it or its child companies.

In the R&B genre, the Weeknd is the most-streamed artist, and he is also tied to a global partnership with a UMG subsidiary. He has ALMOST as many total Spotify streams as the next 2 artists combined, much like the previously mentioned artists, while having 18.2% LESS monthly listeners than the next artist, Bruno Mars, who is signed to Warner Music Group. This is the only genre in my dataset that does not have UMG artists as the majority of the top 10.

In country music, Morgan Wallen is the most-streamed artist, and he has more Spotify lead streams than the next 2 artists combined, Zach Bryan and Luke Combs, while having 34.1% and 29.2% more monthly listeners, respectively. Morgan Wallen is not signed to UMG; they are the worldwide distributor of his music. Though Chord Music Partners purchased part of his catalog for $200 million, and UMG has a 25.8% equity stake in Chord Music Partners, which means they profit when Morgan Wallen is streamed, at least for a portion of his songs.

Out of the top 10 most-streamed country artists, UMG has connections to 8 of them, whether directly or indirectly. 3 of them have distribution deals, while 5 of them are signed to or have their masters owned by UMG or a subsidiary.

One thing all of these top-streamed artists have in common is that they have more streams than the next two artists combined, while having barely more monthly listeners, and they are all connected to UMG in one way or another.

UMG has a hand in a large majority of the most-streamed artists across all genres, and they profit from the number of streams each artist gets, which gives them a motive to bot farm these artists' music. This is a colossal conflict of interest.

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Data information:

I gathered the data on 5/6/2026

I gathered the data from https://chartmasters.org/artist/{artist}

Just replace {artist} with the artist you wish to query

I used Python to graph the data

I used the pandas and matplotlib Python libraries to do so.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 3 days ago

Good men must know violence

They have weaponized god to serve them. I've said in a previous post that one of the people at the top has reached a state of divinity through a process I told you about here months and months ago. This gave them a god complex. 

They will claim, "God wants you to let it go and let god handle it." They do this because they know that if they let it go, no one will handle it, and that will help them avoid all accountability for their actions. They will say that it is God's will, so you never question the intent of the advice. 

If you ever find yourself in my position, with what seems like a supernatural force and/or people telling you to follow God's will, understand that it is not God giving you this advice. It is the ones committing the evil who are trying to dodge consequences for their actions. 

They give you advice and frame it as in your best interests, so you take it. There will be a pattern you must recognize, though. The advice will NEVER benefit you in any way and will only benefit them. Or if it does benefit you, there will be a better outcome for them than there is for you if you take that advice. They are just hoping you don't question the authority of the one giving you the advice if you believe it is God who is giving you that advice. They will try to make you believe that there will be consequences for not following this advice, so you are afraid to hold them accountable. 

I was not raised religious in any way and have questioned every piece of advice given to me, even if it is being given to me by "god".  I have chosen to ignore it and handle it differently at every step, and these people who wronged me are seeing consequences they would never have seen had I listened to them. They aren't the consequences I am satisfied with yet, but we are not done either. 

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 3 days ago

Akademiks TV SERVED With A RICO Lawsuit

Looks like George Nguyen, the person in charge of Akademiks TV and the bot broker, was served papers on the RICO charge, which means the plaintiffs have gathered enough evidence of bot farming.

But you don't see this in any of the news outlets because the ones doing the bot farming also have ties to the media outlets, so they are desperately trying to sweep it under the rug and avoid bringing any attention to it.

I analyzed the streaming numbers, and all the most-streamed artists have numbers that look quite suspect, and they are all tied to UMG. Not only that, but UMG has a stake in Spotify, so they can bot-farm their artists, then tell Spotify to publicly state there is no foul play, whether it be through a shareholders' meeting or a bribe.

Here is the analysis

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpotifyArtists/comments/1u73h2q/streaming_data_umg_specifically_seems_to_be/

and here is the article showing how UMG owns stock in Spotify

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/universal-music-group-spotify-stake-1236580188/

The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has opened an investigation into Spotify. The conflict of interest here is that he has many scandals, including bribery and securities fraud.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-launches-investigation-major-music-streaming-platforms-including-spotify

https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/ken-paxton-scandal-timeline/

Now, the suspicious thing is that Drake, during that beef, sold all of his property in the US and moved to Texas.

https://resident.com/real-estate/2024/05/25/gods-plan-drake-expands-his-legacy-with-a-15-million-texas-ranch

I have a feeling that the Texas AG is being bribed to claim that there was no foul play after a fake investigation.

RBX just had his case dropped after trying to sue Spotify for allowing bot farming, and I have a feeling the exact same thing happened here, since all the numbers clearly point to bot farming. I have never seen so many conflicts of interest in my life, let alone of this caliber.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-lawsuit-fake-drake-streams-dismissed-judge/

The above article is from Billboard which has major ties with Spotify so of course it will report the narrative that makes Spotify look innocent.

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u/Funk-N-Stuff — 13 days ago

Binder for trade, wish list in photos

Here is my binder for trade. It isn't a whole lot, but it does have some desirable cards.

The last 16 screenshots are my wish list from ManaBox. I am mainly looking for borderless foil cards that are good for elf decks. The cards shown are the specific variation that I am looking for.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 15 days ago

[OC] Spotify streaming data graphs and analysis

It looks like UMG is bot-farming its artists more than any other distribution company. They make money from the streams so they have a motive to do it.

Taylor Swift is an artist that Universal Music Group profited from by being the distribution pipeline for her music. This meant that every time someone streamed the original versions of her first six albums on Spotify or Apple Music, the money flowed through UMG’s distribution system before getting paid out to the owners of her masters. She has since signed to UMG but now owns her own masters. She has the most streams as the lead artist in Spotify history. She has more streams than the next 2 pop artists combined, Arianna Grande and Ed Sheeran, while only having 20.7% and 21.1% more monthly listeners, respectively. Ariana also uses UMG, while Ed Sheeran is signed to Warner Bros. If you order the data using total Spotify streams (lead artist and featured artist combined), then the top 3 pop artists are signed to UMG: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Arianna Grande. In fact, 8 of the top 10 most-streamed pop artists are signed to UMG or their subsidiary, and keep in mind that they make money from streams, so they have an incentive to bot farm.

I already made a post about Drake, but I will do a quick reiteration. His numbers look similar to Taylor Swift's. He has more total Spotify streams than the next two artists combined, Eminem and Kanye, while having approximately 20% more monthly listeners than either of them. It is because each bot registers as a single monthly listener while streaming music 24/7, creating a huge discrepancy between total streams and monthly listeners compared to other artists. UMG owns his catalog from 2019 and earlier, which many would agree that those albums are his most popular albums. Even the sales show the same.

The biggest revenue driver for master's owners is digital streaming royalties. Streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music pay out roughly 65% to 70% of their total revenue to music rights holders, and they pay proportionately to the amount of streams each artist has, so the more streams each artist has, the more money UMG gets and the less other artists get. Out of that payout, masters owners get roughly 50%, which is all the incentive UMG needs to bot farm their artists' music. Of the top 10 artists in the hip-hop genre, UMG either owns the catalog of, currently has, or formerly had 7 of them signed to it or its child companies.

In the R&B genre, the Weeknd is the most-streamed artist, and he is also tied to a global partnership with a UMG subsidiary. He has ALMOST as many total Spotify streams as the next 2 artists combined, much like the previously mentioned artists, while having 18.2% LESS monthly listeners than the next artist, Bruno Mars, who is signed to Warner Music Group. This is the only genre in my dataset that does not have UMG artists as the majority of the top 10.

In country music, Morgan Wallen is the most-streamed artist, and he has more Spotify lead streams than the next 2 artists combined, Zach Bryan and Luke Combs, while having 34.1% and 29.2% more monthly listeners, respectively. Morgan Wallen is not signed to UMG; they are the worldwide distributor of his music. Though Chord Music Partners purchased part of his catalog for $200 million, and UMG has a 25.8% equity stake in Chord Music Partners, which means they profit when Morgan Wallen is streamed, at least for a portion of his songs.

Out of the top 10 most-streamed country artists, UMG has connections to 8 of them, whether directly or indirectly. 3 of them have distribution deals, while 5 of them are signed to or have their masters owned by UMG or a subsidiary.

One thing all of these top-streamed artists have in common is that they have more streams than the next two artists combined, while having barely more monthly listeners, and they are all connected to UMG in one way or another.

UMG has a hand in a large majority of the most-streamed artists across all genres, and they profit from the number of streams each artist gets, which gives them a motive to bot farm these artists' music. This is a colossal conflict of interest.

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Data information:

I gathered the data on 5/6/2026

I gathered the data from https://chartmasters.org/artist/{artist}

Just replace {artist} with the artist you wish to query

I used Python to graph the data

I used the pandas and matplotlib Python libraries to do so.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 20 days ago
▲ 35 r/recordlabels+1 crossposts

Streaming data: UMG, specifically, seems to be bot-farming all of its artists for profit.

Data and Graphs:

https://imgur.com/gallery/bot-farming-7JPDsIZ

It looks like UMG is bot-farming its artists more than any other distribution company. They make money from the streams so they have a motive to do it.

Taylor Swift is an artist that Universal Music Group profited from by being the distribution pipeline for her music. This meant that every time someone streamed the original versions of her first six albums on Spotify or Apple Music, the money flowed through UMG’s distribution system before getting paid out to the owners of her masters. She has since signed to UMG but now owns her own masters. She has the most streams as the lead artist in Spotify history. She has more streams than the next 2 pop artists combined, Arianna Grande and Ed Sheeran, while only having 20.7% and 21.1% more monthly listeners, respectively. Ariana also uses UMG, while Ed Sheeran is signed to Warner Bros. If you order the data using total Spotify streams (lead artist and featured artist combined), then the top 3 pop artists are signed to UMG: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Arianna Grande. In fact, 8 of the top 10 most-streamed pop artists are signed to UMG or their subsidiary, and keep in mind that they make money from streams, so they have an incentive to bot farm.

I already made a post about Drake, but I will do a quick reiteration. His numbers look similar to Taylor Swift's. He has more total Spotify streams than the next two artists combined, Eminem and Kanye, while having approximately 20% more monthly listeners than either of them. It is because each bot registers as a single monthly listener while streaming music 24/7, creating a huge discrepancy between total streams and monthly listeners compared to other artists. UMG owns his catalog from 2019 and earlier, which many would agree that those albums are his most popular albums. Even the sales show the same.

The biggest revenue driver for master's owners is digital streaming royalties. Streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music pay out roughly 65% to 70% of their total revenue to music rights holders, and they pay proportionately to the amount of streams each artist has, so the more streams each artist has, the more money UMG gets and the less other artists get. Out of that payout, masters owners get roughly 50%, which is all the incentive UMG needs to bot farm their artists' music. Of the top 10 artists in the hip-hop genre, UMG either owns the catalog of, currently has, or formerly had 7 of them signed to it or its child companies.

In the R&B genre, the Weeknd is the most-streamed artist, and he is also tied to a global partnership with a UMG subsidiary. He has ALMOST as many total Spotify streams as the next 2 artists combined, much like the previously mentioned artists, while having 18.2% LESS monthly listeners than the next artist, Bruno Mars, who is signed to Warner Music Group. This is the only genre in my dataset that does not have UMG artists as the majority of the top 10.

In country music, Morgan Wallen is the most-streamed artist, and he has more Spotify lead streams than the next 2 artists combined, Zach Bryan and Luke Combs, while having 34.1% and 29.2% more monthly listeners, respectively. Morgan Wallen is not signed to UMG; they are the worldwide distributor of his music. Though Chord Music Partners purchased part of his catalog for $200 million, and UMG has a 25.8% equity stake in Chord Music Partners, which means they profit when Morgan Wallen is streamed, at least for a portion of his songs.

Out of the top 10 most-streamed country artists, UMG has connections to 8 of them, whether directly or indirectly. 3 of them have distribution deals, while 5 of them are signed to or have their masters owned by UMG or a subsidiary.

One thing all of these top-streamed artists have in common is that they have more streams than the next two artists combined, while having barely more monthly listeners, and they are all connected to UMG in one way or another.

UMG has a hand in a large majority of the most-streamed artists across all genres, and they profit from the number of streams each artist gets, which gives them a motive to bot farm these artists' music. This is a colossal conflict of interest.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 19 days ago

Streaming data: UMG, specifically, seems to be bot-farming all of its artists for profit.

It looks like UMG is bot-farming its artists more than any other distribution company. They make money from the streams so they have a motive to do it.

Taylor Swift is an artist that Universal Music Group profited from by being the distribution pipeline for her music. This meant that every time someone streamed the original versions of her first six albums on Spotify or Apple Music, the money flowed through UMG’s distribution system before getting paid out to the owners of her masters. She has since signed to UMG but now owns her own masters. She has the most streams as the lead artist in Spotify history. She has more streams than the next 2 pop artists combined, Arianna Grande and Ed Sheeran, while only having 20.7% and 21.1% more monthly listeners, respectively. Ariana also uses UMG, while Ed Sheeran is signed to Warner Bros. If you order the data using total Spotify streams (lead artist and featured artist combined), then the top 3 pop artists are signed to UMG: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Arianna Grande. In fact, 8 of the top 10 most-streamed pop artists are signed to UMG or their subsidiary, and keep in mind that they make money from streams, so they have an incentive to bot farm.

I already made a post about Drake, but I will do a quick reiteration. His numbers look similar to Taylor Swift's. He has more total Spotify streams than the next two artists combined, Eminem and Kanye, while having approximately 20% more monthly listeners than either of them. It is because each bot registers as a single monthly listener while streaming music 24/7, creating a huge discrepancy between total streams and monthly listeners compared to other artists. UMG owns his catalog from 2019 and earlier, which many would agree that those albums are his most popular albums. Even the sales show the same.

The biggest revenue driver for master's owners is digital streaming royalties. Streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music pay out roughly 65% to 70% of their total revenue to music rights holders, and they pay proportionately to the amount of streams each artist has, so the more streams each artist has, the more money UMG gets and the less other artists get. Out of that payout, masters owners get roughly 50%, which is all the incentive UMG needs to bot farm their artists' music. Of the top 10 artists in the hip-hop genre, UMG either owns the catalog of, currently has, or formerly had 7 of them signed to it or its child companies.

In the R&B genre, the Weeknd is the most-streamed artist, and he is also tied to a global partnership with a UMG subsidiary. He has ALMOST as many total Spotify streams as the next 2 artists combined, much like the previously mentioned artists, while having 18.2% LESS monthly listeners than the next artist, Bruno Mars, who is signed to Warner Music Group. This is the only genre in my dataset that does not have UMG artists as the majority of the top 10.

In country music, Morgan Wallen is the most-streamed artist, and he has more Spotify lead streams than the next 2 artists combined, Zach Bryan and Luke Combs, while having 34.1% and 29.2% more monthly listeners, respectively. Morgan Wallen is not signed to UMG; they are the worldwide distributor of his music. Though Chord Music Partners purchased part of his catalog for $200 million, and UMG has a 25.8% equity stake in Chord Music Partners, which means they profit when Morgan Wallen is streamed, at least for a portion of his songs.

Out of the top 10 most-streamed country artists, UMG has connections to 8 of them, whether directly or indirectly. 3 of them have distribution deals, while 5 of them are signed to or have their masters owned by UMG or a subsidiary.

One thing all of these top-streamed artists have in common is that they have more streams than the next two artists combined, while having barely more monthly listeners, and they are all connected to UMG in one way or another.

UMG has a hand in a large majority of the most-streamed artists across all genres, and they profit from the number of streams each artist gets, which gives them a motive to bot farm these artists' music. This is a colossal conflict of interest.

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Data information:

I gathered the data on 5/6/2026

I gathered the data from https://chartmasters.org/artist/{artist}

Just replace {artist} with the artist you wish to query

I used Python to graph the data

I used the pandas and matplotlib Python libraries to do so.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 20 days ago

[OC] Streaming data: UMG, specifically, seems to be bot-farming all of its artists for profit.

It looks like UMG is bot-farming its artists more than any other distribution company. They make money from the streams so they have a motive to do it.

Taylor Swift is an artist that Universal Music Group profited from by being the distribution pipeline for her music. This meant that every time someone streamed the original versions of her first six albums on Spotify or Apple Music, the money flowed through UMG’s distribution system before getting paid out to the owners of her masters. She has since signed to UMG but now owns her own masters. She has the most streams as the lead artist in Spotify history. She has more streams than the next 2 pop artists combined, Arianna Grande and Ed Sheeran, while only having 20.7% and 21.1% more monthly listeners, respectively. Ariana also uses UMG, while Ed Sheeran is signed to Warner Bros. If you order the data using total Spotify streams (lead artist and featured artist combined), then the top 3 pop artists are signed to UMG: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Arianna Grande. In fact, 8 of the top 10 most-streamed pop artists are signed to UMG or their subsidiary, and keep in mind that they make money from streams, so they have an incentive to bot farm.

I already made a post about Drake, but I will do a quick reiteration. His numbers look similar to Taylor Swift's. He has more total Spotify streams than the next two artists combined, Eminem and Kanye, while having approximately 20% more monthly listeners than either of them. It is because each bot registers as a single monthly listener while streaming music 24/7, creating a huge discrepancy between total streams and monthly listeners compared to other artists. UMG owns his catalog from 2019 and earlier, which many would agree that those albums are his most popular albums. Even the sales show the same.

The biggest revenue driver for master's owners is digital streaming royalties. Streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music pay out roughly 65% to 70% of their total revenue to music rights holders, and they pay proportionately to the amount of streams each artist has, so the more streams each artist has, the more money UMG gets and the less other artists get. Out of that payout, masters owners get roughly 50%, which is all the incentive UMG needs to bot farm their artists' music. Of the top 10 artists in the hip-hop genre, UMG either owns the catalog of, currently has, or formerly had 7 of them signed to it or its child companies.

In the R&B genre, the Weeknd is the most-streamed artist, and he is also tied to a global partnership with a UMG subsidiary. He has ALMOST as many total Spotify streams as the next 2 artists combined, much like the previously mentioned artists, while having 18.2% LESS monthly listeners than the next artist, Bruno Mars, who is signed to Warner Music Group. This is the only genre in my dataset that does not have UMG artists as the majority of the top 10.

In country music, Morgan Wallen is the most-streamed artist, and he has more Spotify lead streams than the next 2 artists combined, Zach Bryan and Luke Combs, while having 34.1% and 29.2% more monthly listeners, respectively. Morgan Wallen is not signed to UMG; they are the worldwide distributor of his music. Though Chord Music Partners purchased part of his catalog for $200 million, and UMG has a 25.8% equity stake in Chord Music Partners, which means they profit when Morgan Wallen is streamed, at least for a portion of his songs.

Out of the top 10 most-streamed country artists, UMG has connections to 8 of them, whether directly or indirectly. 3 of them have distribution deals, while 5 of them are signed to or have their masters owned by UMG or a subsidiary.

One thing all of these top-streamed artists have in common is that they have more streams than the next two artists combined, while having barely more monthly listeners, and they are all connected to UMG in one way or another.

UMG has a hand in a large majority of the most-streamed artists across all genres, and they profit from the number of streams each artist gets, which gives them a motive to bot farm these artists' music. This is a colossal conflict of interest.

___________________________________________________________________________________________

Data information:

I gathered the data on 5/6/2026

I gathered the data from https://chartmasters.org/artist/{artist}

Just replace {artist} with the artist you wish to query

I used Python to graph the data

I used the pandas and matplotlib Python libraries to do so.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 21 days ago

Streaming Data vs. Touring Data: One artist in particular seems to be massively bot-farming his streams. I bet you can't guess who.

That is the data I collected from chartmasters on May 6th, 2026.

Drake has more streams than the next 2 artists, Kanye and Eminem, combined, while somehow only having 17.6% more monthly listeners than Kanye and 18.4% more listeners than Eminem. These two are some of the most influential artists of all time, so it is quite suspicious that Drake, the only hip-hop artist to have higher numbers, has more than both of them combined. This is called skewing the graph in analytics, and when data skews the graph, it's either wrong or manipulated.

This is because each bot registers as only one listener, yet streams music 24/7. This is why there is a huge discrepancy compared to other artists.

He also has more songs with over 100 million streams than the next 2 artists combined. He is flooding his whole catalog with bots.

Unfortunately, tour numbers are difficult to find, especially for any tour in the early to mid 2010's or earlier.

One website conveniently provided the data for ALL of Drake's tours. Unfortunately, he was the only hip-hop artist on that site, and I couldn't find the same site again. Fortunately XXL Mag provided the same data.

For the other tours, I got the data from the touring data page on X. It returned the same numbers as the XXL Mag site, which gives credibility to these other statistics.

Drake's shows averaged 11.5k to 16.7k tickets sold per show, except for his first tour, which sold about 3.7k per show. The average arena has a capacity of 15k to 20k. His BEST show averaged 16.7k tickets. That isn't even enough to sell out a higher-end arena, let alone a stadium.

Kendrick's best tour was his stadium tour, which averaged about 45k tickets per show. The average stadium has a capacity of 35k to 100k.

And Eminem has 2 stadium tours, which averaged around 52k tickets per show each.

It was difficult to find data on Kanye, but he just sold out SoFi Stadium, which has an estimated capacity of 70k.

I am not judging anyone who can't sell out a stadium; that seems like an incredible feat, no matter who you are. I am judging the fact that somehow Drake has better streaming numbers than the next 2 artists combined, while somehow can't even sell a fraction of the tickets that they do.

Drake went on a hybrid tour in 2016, playing both arenas and stadiums. The "Would you like a tour?" tour. This tour only averaged about 11.6k tickets per show. That's not even close to enough to fill the low end of the arena's average spectrum, let alone a stadium.

I believe this is why he won't go on pure stadium tours, because of how this tour went. If he went on a stadium tour now after bragging about being the most-streamed artist on Spotify, people would realize he is a fraud when his tour performance doesn't match his streaming statistics.

He is the most-streamed artist of all time across all genres when combining lead and featured artist streams. I suspect most of those Drake "stans" are just bots. If he can flood his streams with bots, he can most certainly program those same bots to flood comment sections. That's why they all seem coordinated and act exactly like him. Refuse to take accountability, question everyone else except Drake, and make counteraccusations. They all act like him because they are all being programmed by a man, George Nguyen, who is being instructed by Drake. George Nguyen is the man named in Drake's RICO charge as the bot broker. His internet alias is the Grand Wizard, he is Drake's IT guy

This same dataset has 250 artists across 6 genres. I just took a screenshot of the hip-hop portion

My Sources:

https://chartmasters.org/

then add artist/{ARTIST-NAME} at the end of the domain and replace {ARTIST-NAME} for the artist you want the data on.

https://www.xxlmag.com/drake-tours-tickets-sold-money-earned/

https://x.com/touringdata?lang=en

Tools:

Excel for the tables

Python to gather the data and create the graphs

Libraries:

matplotlib

pandas

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 28 days ago

Streaming Data vs. Touring Data, WITH BETTER GRAPHS

My post was removed because I didn't include my sources in the comments, so I am going to try again, and this time with better graphs.

That is the data I collected from chartmasters on May 6th, 2026.

Drake has more streams than the next 2 artists, Kanye and Eminem, combined, while somehow only having 17.6% more monthly listeners than Kanye and 18.4% more listeners than Eminem. These two are some of the most influential artists of all time, so it is quite suspicious that Drake, the only hip-hop artist to have higher numbers, has more than both of them combined. This is called skewing the graph in analytics, and when data skews the graph, it's either wrong or manipulated.

This is because each bot registers as only one listener, yet streams music 24/7. This is why there is a huge discrepancy compared to other artists.

He also has more songs with over 100 million streams than the next 2 artists combined. He is flooding his whole catalog with bots.

Unfortunately, tour numbers are difficult to find, especially for any tour in the early to mid 2010's or earlier.

One website conveniently provided the data for ALL of Drake's tours. Unfortunately, he was the only hip-hop artist on that site, and I couldn't find the same site again. Fortunately XXL Mag provided the same data.

For the other tours, I got the data from the touring data page on X. It returned the same numbers as the XXL Mag site, which gives credibility to these other statistics.

Drake's shows averaged 11.5k to 16.7k tickets sold per show, except for his first tour, which sold about 3.7k per show. The average arena has a capacity of 15k to 20k. His BEST show averaged 16.7k tickets. That isn't even enough to sell out a higher-end arena, let alone a stadium.

Kendrick's best tour was his stadium tour, which averaged about 45k tickets per show. The average stadium has a capacity of 35k to 100k.

And Eminem has 2 stadium tours, which averaged around 52k tickets per show each.

It was difficult to find data on Kanye, but he just sold out SoFi Stadium, which has an estimated capacity of 70k.

I am not judging anyone who can't sell out a stadium; that seems like an incredible feat, no matter who you are. I am judging the fact that somehow Drake has better streaming numbers than the next 2 artists combined, while somehow can't even sell a fraction of the tickets that they do.

Drake went on a hybrid tour in 2016, playing both arenas and stadiums. The "Would you like a tour?" tour. This tour only averaged about 11.6k tickets per show. That's not even close to enough to fill the low end of the arena's average spectrum, let alone a stadium.

I believe this is why he won't go on pure stadium tours, because of how this tour went. If he went on a stadium tour now after bragging about being the most-streamed artist on Spotify, people would realize he is a fraud when his tour performance doesn't match his streaming statistics.

He is the most-streamed artist of all time across all genres when combining lead and featured artist streams. I suspect most of those Drake "stans" are just bots. If he can flood his streams with bots, he can most certainly program those same bots to flood comment sections. That's why they all seem coordinated and act exactly like him. Refuse to take accountability, question everyone else except Drake, and make counteraccusations. They all act like him because they are all being programmed by a man, George Nguyen, who is being instructed by Drake. George Nguyen is the man named in Drake's RICO charge as the bot broker. His internet alias is the Grand Wizard, he is Drake's IT guy

This same dataset has 250 artists across 6 genres. I just took a screenshot of the hip-hop portion

My Sources:

https://chartmasters.org/

then add artist/{ARTIST-NAME} at the end of the domain and replace {ARTIST-NAME} for the artist you want the data on.

https://www.xxlmag.com/drake-tours-tickets-sold-money-earned/

https://x.com/touringdata?lang=en

Tools:

Excel for the tables

Python to gather the data and create the graphs

Libraries:

matplotlib

pandas

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 28 days ago

Streaming Data vs. Touring Data: One artist in particular seems to be massively bot-farming his streams. I bet you can't guess who.

That is the data I collected from chartmasters on May 6th, 2026.

Drake has more streams than the next 2 artists, Kanye and Eminem, combined, while somehow only having 17.6% more monthly listeners than Kanye and 18.4% more listeners than Eminem. These two are some of the most influential artists of all time, so it is quite suspicious that Drake, the only hip-hop artist to have higher numbers, has more than both of them combined. This is called skewing the graph in analytics, and when data skews the graph, it's either wrong or manipulated.

This is because each bot registers as only one listener, yet streams music 24/7. This is why there is a huge discrepancy compared to other artists.

He also has more songs with over 100 million streams than the next 2 artists combined. He is flooding his whole catalog with bots.

Unfortunately, tour numbers are difficult to find, especially for any tour in the early to mid 2010's or earlier.

One website conveniently provided the data for ALL of Drake's tours. Unfortunately, he was the only hip-hop artist on that site, and I couldn't find the same site again. Fortunately XXL Mag provided the same data.

For the other tours, I got the data from the touring data page on X. It returned the same numbers as the XXL Mag site, which gives credibility to these other statistics.

Drake's shows averaged 11.5k to 16.7k tickets sold per show, except for his first tour, which sold about 3.7k per show. The average arena has a capacity of 15k to 20k. His BEST show averaged 16.7k tickets. That isn't even enough to sell out a higher-end arena, let alone a stadium.

Kendrick's best tour was his stadium tour, which averaged about 45k tickets per show. The average stadium has a capacity of 35k to 100k.

And Eminem has 2 stadium tours, which averaged around 52k tickets per show each.

It was difficult to find data on Kanye, but he just sold out SoFi Stadium, which has an estimated capacity of 70k.

I am not judging anyone who can't sell out a stadium; that seems like an incredible feat, no matter who you are. I am judging the fact that somehow Drake has better streaming numbers than the next 2 artists combined, while somehow can't even sell a fraction of the tickets that they do.

Drake went on a hybrid tour in 2016, playing both arenas and stadiums. The "Would you like a tour?" tour. This tour only averaged about 11.6k tickets per show. That's not even close to enough to fill the low end of the arena's average spectrum, let alone a stadium.

I believe this is why he won't go on pure stadium tours, because of how this tour went. If he went on a stadium tour now after bragging about being the most-streamed artist on Spotify, people would realize he is a fraud when his tour performance doesn't match his streaming statistics.

UPDATE

He is the most-streamed artist of all time across all genres when combining lead and featured artist streams. I suspect most of those Drake "stans" are just bots. If he can flood his streams with bots, he can most certainly program those same bots to flood comment sections. That's why they all seem coordinated and act exactly like him. Refuse to take accountability, question everyone else except Drake, and make counteraccusations. They all act like him because they are all being programmed by a man, George Nguyen, who is being instructed by Drake. George Nguyen is the man named in Drake's RICO charge as the bot broker. His internet alias is the Grand Wizard, he is Drake's IT guy

This same dataset has 250 artists across 6 genres. I just took a screenshot of the hip-hop portion

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 29 days ago

Streaming Data vs. Touring Data: One artist in particular seems to be massively bot-farming his streams. I bet you can't guess who.

That is the data I collected from chartmasters on May 6th, 2026.

Drake has more streams than the next 2 artists, Kanye and Eminem, combined, while somehow only having 17.6% more monthly listeners than Kanye and 18.4% more listeners than Eminem. These two are some of the most influential artists of all time, so it is quite suspicious that Drake, the only hip-hop artist to have higher numbers, has more than both of them combined. This is called skewing the graph in analytics, and when data skews the graph, it's either wrong or manipulated.

This is because each bot registers as only one listener, yet streams music 24/7. This is why there is a huge discrepancy compared to other artists.

He also has more songs with over 100 million streams than the next 2 artists combined. He is flooding his whole catalog with bots.

Unfortunately, tour numbers are difficult to find, especially for any tour in the early to mid 2010's or earlier.

One website conveniently provided the data for ALL of Drake's tours. Unfortunately, he was the only hip-hop artist on that site, and I couldn't find the same site again. Fortunately XXL Mag provided the same data.

For the other tours, I got the data from the touring data page on X. It returned the same numbers as the XXL Mag site, which gives credibility to these other statistics.

Drake's shows averaged 11.5k to 16.7k tickets sold per show, except for his first tour, which sold about 3.7k per show. The average arena has a capacity of 15k to 20k. His BEST show averaged 16.7k tickets. That isn't even enough to sell out a higher-end arena, let alone a stadium.

Kendrick's best tour was his stadium tour, which averaged about 45k tickets per show. The average stadium has a capacity of 35k to 100k.

And Eminem has 2 stadium tours, which averaged around 52k tickets per show each.

It was difficult to find data on Kanye, but he just sold out SoFi Stadium, which has an estimated capacity of 70k.

I am not judging anyone who can't sell out a stadium; that seems like an incredible feat, no matter who you are. I am judging the fact that somehow Drake has better streaming numbers than the next 2 artists combined, while somehow can't even sell a fraction of the tickets that they do.

Drake went on a hybrid tour in 2016, playing both arenas and stadiums. The "Would you like a tour?" tour. This tour only averaged about 11.6k tickets per show. That's not even close to enough to fill the low end of the arena's average spectrum, let alone a stadium.

I believe this is why he won't go on pure stadium tours, because of how this tour went. If he went on a stadium tour now after bragging about being the most-streamed artist on Spotify, people would realize he is a fraud when his tour performance doesn't match his streaming statistics.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 29 days ago

Streaming Data vs. Touring Data: One artist in particular seems to be massively bot-farming his streams. I bet you can't guess who.

That is the data I collected from chartmasters on May 6th, 2026.

Drake has more streams than the next 2 artists, Kanye and Eminem, combined, while somehow only having 17.6% more monthly listeners than Kanye and 18.4% more listeners than Eminem. These two are some of the most influential artists of all time, so it is quite suspicious that Drake, the only hip-hop artist to have higher numbers, has more than both of them combined. This is called skewing the graph in analytics, and when data skews the graph, it's either wrong or manipulated.

This is because each bot registers as only one listener, yet streams music 24/7. This is why there is a huge discrepancy compared to other artists.

He also has more songs with over 100 million streams than the next 2 artists combined. He is flooding his whole catalog with bots.

Unfortunately, tour numbers are difficult to find, especially for any tour in the early to mid 2010's or earlier.

One website conveniently provided the data for ALL of Drake's tours. Unfortunately, he was the only hip-hop artist on that site, and I couldn't find the same site again. Fortunately XXL Mag provided the same data.

For the other tours, I got the data from the touring data page on X. It returned the same numbers as the XXL Mag site, which gives credibility to these other statistics.

Drake's shows averaged 11.5k to 16.7k tickets sold per show, except for his first tour, which sold about 3.7k per show. The average arena has a capacity of 15k to 20k. His BEST show averaged 16.7k tickets. That isn't even enough to sell out a higher-end arena, let alone a stadium.

Kendrick's best tour was his stadium tour, which averaged about 45k tickets per show. The average stadium has a capacity of 35k to 100k.

And Eminem has 2 stadium tours, which averaged around 52k tickets per show each.

It was difficult to find data on Kanye, but he just sold out SoFi Stadium, which has an estimated capacity of 70k.

I am not judging anyone who can't sell out a stadium; that seems like an incredible feat, no matter who you are. I am judging the fact that somehow Drake has better streaming numbers than the next 2 artists combined, while somehow can't even sell a fraction of the tickets that they do.

Drake went on a hybrid tour in 2016, playing both arenas and stadiums. The "Would you like a tour?" tour. This tour only averaged about 11.6k tickets per show. That's not even close to enough to fill the low end of the arena's average spectrum, let alone a stadium.

I believe this is why he won't go on pure stadium tours, because of how this tour went. If he went on a stadium tour now after bragging about being the most-streamed artist on Spotify, people would realize he is a fraud when his tour performance doesn't match his streaming statistics.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 30 days ago

Streaming Data vs. Touring Data: One artist in particular seems to be massively bot-farming his streams. I bet you can't guess who.

That is the data I collected from chartmasters on May 6th, 2026.

Drake has more streams than the next 2 artists, Kanye and Eminem, combined, while somehow only having 17.6% more monthly listeners than Kanye and 18.4% more listeners than Eminem. These two are some of the most influential artists of all time, so it is quite suspicious that Drake, the only hip-hop artist to have higher numbers, has more than both of them combined. This is called skewing the graph in analytics, and when data skews the graph, it's either wrong or manipulated.

This is because each bot registers as only one listener, yet streams music 24/7. This is why there is a huge discrepancy compared to other artists.

He also has more songs with over 100 million streams than the next 2 artists combined. He is flooding his whole catalog with bots.

Unfortunately, tour numbers are difficult to find, especially for any tour in the early to mid 2010's or earlier.

One website conveniently provided the data for ALL of Drake's tours. Unfortunately, he was the only hip-hop artist on that site, and I couldn't find the same site again. Fortunately XXL Mag provided the same data.

For the other tours, I got the data from the touring data page on X. It returned the same numbers as the XXL Mag site, which gives credibility to these other statistics.

Drake's shows averaged 11.5k to 16.7k tickets sold per show, except for his first tour, which sold about 3.7k per show. The average arena has a capacity of 15k to 20k. His BEST show averaged 16.7k tickets. That isn't even enough to sell out a higher-end arena, let alone a stadium.

Kendrick's best tour was his stadium tour, which averaged about 45k tickets per show. The average stadium has a capacity of 35k to 100k.

And Eminem has 2 stadium tours, which averaged around 52k tickets per show each.

It was difficult to find data on Kanye, but he just sold out SoFi Stadium, which has an estimated capacity of 70k.

I am not judging anyone who can't sell out a stadium; that seems like an incredible feat, no matter who you are. I am judging the fact that somehow Drake has better streaming numbers than the next 2 artists combined, while somehow can't even sell a fraction of the tickets that they do.

Drake went on a hybrid tour in 2016, playing both arenas and stadiums. The "Would you like a tour?" tour. This tour only averaged about 11.6k tickets per show. That's not even close to enough to fill the low end of the arena's average spectrum, let alone a stadium.

I believe this is why he won't go on pure stadium tours, because of how this tour went. If he went on a stadium tour now after bragging about being the most-streamed artist on Spotify, people would realize he is a fraud when his tour performance doesn't match his streaming statistics.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 30 days ago
▲ 17 r/SpotifyArtists+1 crossposts

Streaming Data vs. Touring Data: One artist in particular seems to be massively bot-farming his streams. I bet you can't guess who.

https://imgur.com/gallery/streaming-numbers-Ib7ot1i

That is the data I collected from chartmasters on May 6th, 2026.

Drake has more streams than the next 2 artists, Kanye and Eminem, combined, while somehow only having 17.6% more monthly listeners than Kanye and 18.4% more listeners than Eminem. These two are some of the most influential artists of all time, so it is quite suspicious that Drake, the only hip-hop artist to have higher numbers, has more than both of them combined. This is called skewing the graph in analytics, and when data skews the graph, it's either wrong or manipulated.

This is because each bot registers as only one listener, yet streams music 24/7. This is why there is a huge discrepancy compared to other artists.

He also has more songs with over 100 million streams than the next 2 artists combined. He is flooding his whole catalog with bots.

Unfortunately, tour numbers are difficult to find, especially for any tour in the early to mid 2010's or earlier.

One website conveniently provided the data for ALL of Drake's tours. Unfortunately, he was the only hip-hop artist on that site, and I couldn't find the same site again. Fortunately XXL Mag provided the same data.

For the other tours, I got the data from the touring data page on X. It returned the same numbers as the XXL Mag site, which gives credibility to these other statistics.

https://imgur.com/gallery/tour-numbers-F92ALhS

Drake's shows averaged 11.5k to 16.7k tickets sold per show, except for his first tour, which sold about 3.7k per show. The average arena has a capacity of 15k to 20k. His BEST show averaged 16.7k tickets. That isn't even enough to sell out a higher-end arena, let alone a stadium.

Kendrick's best tour was his stadium tour, which averaged about 45k tickets per show. The average stadium has a capacity of 35k to 100k.

And Eminem has 2 stadium tours, which averaged around 52k tickets per show each.

It was difficult to find data on Kanye, but he just sold out SoFi Stadium, which has an estimated capacity of 70k.

I am not judging anyone who can't sell out a stadium; that seems like an incredible feat, no matter who you are. I am judging the fact that somehow Drake has better streaming numbers than the next 2 artists combined, while somehow can't even sell a fraction of the tickets that they do.

Drake went on a hybrid tour in 2016, playing both arenas and stadiums. The "Would you like a tour?" tour. This tour only averaged about 11.6k tickets per show. That's not even close to enough to fill the low end of the arena's average spectrum, let alone a stadium.

I believe this is why he won't go on pure stadium tours, because of how this tour went. If he went on a stadium tour now after bragging about being the most-streamed artist on Spotify, people would realize he is a fraud when his tour performance doesn't match his streaming statistics.

u/Funk-N-Stuff — 30 days ago