From hip-hop to K-pop and beyond, fraudulent streams, AI tracks, and juiced charts are changing how songs are made and ...

From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of ...

A North Carolina man has defrauded music streaming platforms out of $8M in royalties by uploading AI-generated songs and ...

Unveiling the AI music scandal: Discover how an artist used artificial intelligence and bots to manipulate streaming numbers and commit fraud in the music industry. An artificial intelligence (AI) ...

A man had pleaded guilty after using over 1,000 bots to artificially boost streams on AI-generated songs, making him rich in ...

North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive ...

Federal authorities hit a North Carolina man with charges arising from allegations that he fraudulently earned streaming royalties through a scheme involving bots and AI-generated songs. The man, ...

North Carolina musician Michael Smith was indicted for collecting over $10 million in royalty payments from Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music using AI-generated songs streamed by ...

On July 9, 2024, Devi McCallion uploaded a video titled “Help! or listen to me complain ._. (Spotify / distrokid issue).” McCallion has amassed a dedicated following and critical acclaim both as a ...