Spotify “Stats”

Gotta love Spotify “stats”, a way to shaft artists. This is part of the email spotify recently sent:

Can somebody please explain to me how my promotion with Apalone yielded 51 listeners, with 2,742 of those new listeners? Liars figure.

There needs to be a class action lawsuit to audit all these DSPs for fudged numbers. I’m sure that major discrepancies would be found between reported figures and the real numbers. It’s not just Shittify, Deezer, as far as I can tell, underreports numbers by 40% and more, and YouTube reports negative numbers in plays.