With fake streaming figures, artists can appear more popular than they really are, and for copyright organizations like Stim, it risks causing artists to receive revenue that they really should not have had based on their listening.

The organization's CEO, Karsten Dyhrberg Nielsen, in a statement calls the flow cheat "totally unacceptable". He writes that the licensing company Ice services, with which Stim collaborates, has also identified several cases of suspected streaming figures manipulation.

“Manipulating streams means that a person gets paid for streams without any actual listening, which leads to a redistribution of revenue from rights holders to cheaters. It goes without saying that any form of manipulation of streams aimed at shoeing at the expense of another rights holder is completely unacceptable, ”writes Karsten Dyhrberg Nielsen.

According to Karsten Dyhrberg Nielsen, ice services will now have a dialogue with Spotify, Google play and Youtube to ensure that they take their responsibility.

Digilistan was stopped

As recently as last week, Sweden's radio decided to stop Digilistan in P3 in the light of the problem of fake numbers. Recently, a number of artists have also caught the eye and have been accused of manipulating their numbers. At the beginning of January, the rapper, French Montana, was accused of buying listeners on Spotify.

To draw attention to the issue in Sweden and show his view on the problem, the artist Mange Schmidt also recently went to Dagens Nyheter and showed how the listening to one of his songs increased on Spotify after he bought streaming on a site.