Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Alleging Spotify Allowed Billions Of Fake Streams Of Drake’s Music

A judge has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit alleging that streaming platform Spotify was "turning a blind eye" to 37 billion allegedly illicit Drake song streams. Long Beach rapper RBX, who’s the cousin of Snoop Dogg, was dismissed in June. An amended version was filed just over two weeks later, in mid-July. A U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton found that RBX, real name Eric Dwayne Collins, could not back up allegations of Drake and Spotify inflating streams and deceiving platform users. The decision, written by Judge Josephine L. Staton, went through all of RBX’s claims one by one, shutting them all down. “Other than conclusory statements about Spotify turning a ‘blind eye’ to artificial streaming of tracks from popular artists like Drake, the [amended lawsuit] contains no other allegations about how Spotify selectively enforces its policies against artificial streaming,” Judge Staton wrote.

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