German artists organize to demand a bigger slice of streaming pie
in their home countries. Driving mainstream adoption has been a streaming consumption model that prioritizes local repertoire over global acts, which has allowed local hip-hop acts to snag multiple chart spots every time a new album is released.
The new model the German group is pushing for also seeks to expose and prevent attempts to manipulate streaming platforms. Such attempts have become more prevalent, industry sources say, in particular among local-language hip hop acts in Europe and Asia. Allendorf says that supporters of the initiative suggest that “other motivations” might be at play to explain why some customers are streaming individual songs several hundred times a week. “If you understand the current system you know how easy it is to manipulate,” she says in her statement.
The music industry has been girding against streaming manipulation. Last year an industry-wide coalition of record labels, publishers and collecting societies banded together and signed a 21-point “” aimed at preventing and detecting when bots or humans are artificially inflating streaming numbers. All three major record labels were among the 24 companies and trade bodies backing the global campaign.
In some cases, artists themselves have encouraged fan campaigns that smack of attempts to game the system. Just two weeks ago,
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