Russ Suggests The Labels Are Holding Spotify Hostage

Today, Spotify finally publically denied Drake's charge that they conspired with Universal to artificially promote Kendrick Lamar's Drake diss "Not Like Us."

Also today, Russ, who loves to spill industry secrets, explained how Spotify is essentially being held hostage by the major labels.

Disclaimer : I love Spotify and am grateful for the platform that has connected my music with millions of fans worldwide and this isn’t about any label or artist in particular, moreso just the system

Spotify knows who’s faking their streams lol however, they’re not gonna ever…

— RUSS (@russdiemon) December 20, 2024

I know everyone loves to hate rich companies or rich anything but tbh in this situation Spotify is lowkey the victim bein held hostage by major labels

— RUSS (@russdiemon) December 20, 2024

Disclaimer : I love Spotify and am grateful for the platform that has connected my music with millions of fans worldwide and this isn’t about any label or artist in particular, moreso just the system  Spotify knows who’s faking their streams lol however, they’re not gonna ever (imo) publicly expose any major labels due to potential consequences. Major labels could retaliate by pulling their top artists music from Spotify. That would obviously diminish Spotify's value and attractiveness to subscribers. Spotify just punishes them behind the scenes (removes fake streams and removes the song from playlists) because they prioritize (makes sense) maintaining their access to major label content over publicly confronting stream manipulation, which essentially makes them a "hostage” of the major labels. Basically Spotify publicly outing major labels is a lose lose for everyone involved," he typed.  "I know everyone loves to hate rich companies or rich anything but tbh in this situation Spotify is lowkey the victim bein held hostage by major labels."

Do you think Spotify did would Drake accuses him of doing