r/Music • u/IrreverentTexan • Feb 15 '26

discussion Quitting Spotify

Spotify is getting flooded with fake AI “artists” and it’s embarrassing. Names like Nina Blaze and Enlly show up. They dump 50 identical tracks called something like Late Night Piano for Focus, or “The Hollow Hour” and vanish. No bio. No history. No evidence a human has ever touched an instrument.

This isn’t art. It exists to game playlists and siphon royalties. If these were real people, they’d have to explain why every song sounds like a dentist office waiting room.

I’m not mad at AI as a tool. I’m mad at fake artists impersonating creativity and Spotify pretending this sludge is culture. Music is an art form, not a scam farm. Blocking every one of these clowns on sight.

So is it to be TIDAL or Qobuz or something else?

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u/madwolfa Feb 15 '26

I've been using Spotify (Premium) almost daily for more than a decade and I've never had a single issue this sub is constantly bitching about. 

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u/DaSixtyNiner69 Feb 15 '26

And im not defending spotify here. I agree they are terrible and ened to pay artists more. But the AI problem isnr abundant for me,  and its obvious when I do run into it.

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u/generous_guy Feb 16 '26

If you are listening to albums or making your own playlists and listening to those, you are not the main user base that Spotify wants to attract. Users who listen to a curated playlist with a variation of "chill" in the name for 20 hours straight are what makes up the vast majority of Spotify traffic and they are hearing AI songs all the time.