Artificial Streaming – Spotify for Artists

Spotify strictly prohibits using any third party service that promises streams or playlist placement in exchange for money. These services violate Spotify’s Terms and Conditions of Use and User Guidelines.

We want to ensure that artificial streams have no benefit – and do not create any second-order negative impact on legitimate streams. We are always updating our systems to enforce these policies as quickly and thoroughly as possible. Spotify’s policy is that when we detect any artificial streams, the following penalties are applied:

Those streams do not earn royalties.

Those streams do not count toward public stream numbers or charts.

Those streams do not positively influence recommendation algorithms.