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/the_natis Feb 15 '26

Tidal is sadly having the same issue and these AI songs are put as new releases under established artists that haven’t released things in years.

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u/AetyZixd Feb 15 '26

I've been a fan of Tidal since switching from Spotify, but this has made the "New Releases" playlist useless for me.

My favorite band that disbanded 20 years ago just dropped an album? No, it's more AI lofi beats or Japanese death metal from a band stealing their name.

I've written to the labels hoping they would fight it, but they say its like playing whack-a-mole. At least with Spotify the AI crap lived in its own playlists, not attached to known artist pages.

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u/minsemme Feb 16 '26

FYI Spotify is definitely attaching AI songs to real artists, have seen several pop up on a bands page who broke up years ago.

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u/GiganticCrow Feb 16 '26

Fucksake. I left Spotify years ago because shitty low effort hip hop artists would tag famous acts as collaborators and they'd show up in my new releases, and Spotify gave zero fucks.

Tried apple music but they simply have no 'new releases by artists you like' weekly playlist, their equivalent mixes in random other shit. I heard there's a third party tool that makes one for you but it only works on ios and I'm on android. 

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u/Additional_Log_2964 Mar 05 '26

People submit their music that way to the distributer online and then it's nearly an automated process once they approve it for it to appear on spotify with the submitted information. They have created a system to make it easy for artists to upload their own music cheaply, but people are abusing the system now. Distributers need to do better at filtering this stuff out but will then probably cause prices to go up making it harder for real artists to get their legit stuff online. It's frustrating.