How Money Laundering W/ Spotify Works

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Benn Jordan

Benn Jordan

8 ай бұрын

A crazy symptom of a few much larger problems. (*reuploaded to be slightly more vague 😬)
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@BennJordan
@BennJordan 7 ай бұрын
FYI: 90% of this could be solved by Spotify managing their own catalog and payments instead of depending on for-profit, 3rd party aggregators like Distrokid (and hundreds of lesser knowns) to do it for them.
@konskift
@konskift 7 ай бұрын
You should put a trigger warning for Danish viewers: far too much positive said about Sweden already in the first 2 minutes!
@jessenthebenezer
@jessenthebenezer 7 ай бұрын
thats dumb as fuck
@LowrollerWTF
@LowrollerWTF 7 ай бұрын
Well they own shares of Distrokid so they are profitting on this both ways so they clearly have no interests in doing so I guess LOL...
@Scoots1994
@Scoots1994 7 ай бұрын
10 years ago or so I sent a text to my Nephew that a streaming service just played me one of his songs (I didn't ask it to) and his response was something along the lines of "Great! Now I can buy 1/13000th of a sandwich!" ... He made 6 albums, multiple world tours ... and he was broke. On the bright side he knew he would get screwed so he also worked on his other passion and is now a history professor. I remember when I read Steve Albini's essay 30 years ago called "The Problem With Music" on the music industry and the nasty little secrets it holds. It doesn't surprise me that they are creating new nasty little secrets still. Australian Casinos are also good for laundering money, but not so good you make a profit.
@10tothe10088
@10tothe10088 7 ай бұрын
I'm a little confused why that would help - aren't all of the streams already "legitimate" as far as Spotify can tell? As long as organized crime is using real artists, it doesn't matter how good their music is (or isn't) because Spotify can't detect those streams as being bad
@mymodularjourney
@mymodularjourney 7 ай бұрын
The music industry has always rubbed shoulders with organized crime. Before Spotify, party promotion was the way to go.
@djb903
@djb903 7 ай бұрын
I think organized crime is so prevalent that it rubs shoulders with ALL legitimate industries and institutions
@jonytube
@jonytube 7 ай бұрын
Yup, and nightlife/clubbing is ridden with organized crime as well. Security extortion, drug trafficking and dealing at venues, the whole nine yards - a bunch of lovely, wholesome folks all around you
@sawtooth808
@sawtooth808 7 ай бұрын
Fun fact: The scene in The Godfather where Michael Corleone casually talks about how Vito came to manage Johnny Fontaine, actually happened irl with Ol’ Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra
@ckorp666
@ckorp666 7 ай бұрын
not to mention, where do you think the money for those ""advances"" (loans) comes from with some of these shadier record companies? why do you think artists end up mysteriously/tragically dying when their contract is expiring and they havent met expectations?
@ErcoleBellucci
@ErcoleBellucci 7 ай бұрын
the whole art industry is rigged and is corrupted with organized crime even in italy
@Veqtor
@Veqtor 7 ай бұрын
As a swede I thank you for shining light on this madness
@tatsuhirosato8646
@tatsuhirosato8646 7 ай бұрын
It's too bad the Soross funded elites wanted to shit on your country with all those refugees. Apparently letting the migrants into your home and feeding them didn't make them want to stop committing crimes against you.
@Slutabara
@Slutabara 7 ай бұрын
Yeah Benn's a real one
@andersgenell1306
@andersgenell1306 7 ай бұрын
Another swede here agreeing heartily.
@slipknotboy555
@slipknotboy555 7 ай бұрын
@@Cheeses_K_Riced It's the way our species works *under capitalism. To truly change things, we need to end (and replace) the system
@jonwide6689
@jonwide6689 7 ай бұрын
I remember going to a seminar in Stockholm back in 2017 with a label rep giving advice to new producers: only focus on rap with young male talents with criminal background. Target audience: young urban girls with Spotify free subscriptions. They stream that shit 24/7. The news here never bring up the white collar crime aspects. They only focus on the violence.
@gumse666
@gumse666 7 ай бұрын
When a crime happens in Sweden, many swedes go to the discussion board Flashback to find out more. It's often some "aspiring rapper" who got shot. Most of the time everyone says "Literally Who?". And every time som lowlife answers "Hey gramps, you know nothing of modern culture, the victim has 2 million streams a month on Spotify". Now we know why. It doesn't end there. Every year the state controlled radio channel P3 has an award event where artists gets awards, mostly based on the Spotify numbers.
@alex-r-t
@alex-r-t 7 ай бұрын
Dang, so it's not just subscribers paying criminals to launder money, it's advertisers and Spotify's own investors. Absolutely insane.
@slamcrank
@slamcrank 7 ай бұрын
100% nailed it. It's a big old circle.
@Joethedrummer
@Joethedrummer 7 ай бұрын
Our entire economy is some sort of con job, hustle and/or rip off
@varesso7568
@varesso7568 7 ай бұрын
where did you get this from?
@alex-r-t
@alex-r-t 7 ай бұрын
​ @varesso7568 So, I'm basing that off the section of the video starting at 8:45 and Benn's previous video on the topic. The gist is: at the current rate per stream that Spotify commits to, their income from subscriptions and advertisements isn't enough. The only other funds they have to put towards paying out is the venture capital received from investors. From that we can say, in aggregate, the money being ultimately transferred to these criminals comes from subscribers, advertisers, and investors. This is particularly interesting because, from what we've frequently seen with other big tech companies, fundamental changes are more likely to occur when the advertisers and investors start to become upset. On the flip side, those same fundamental changes are less likely if just the end-user, subscribers, or content originators are affected (not always the case, but it often is). Hope that helps!
@dontwannaatellu
@dontwannaatellu 7 ай бұрын
@@varesso75688:55 where he talks about his other video discussing Spotify’s fails
@MungoBBQ
@MungoBBQ 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for shining a light on this issue! There is something else about this issue that is important for Swedes who care about music and culture: There are music charts that are based on Spotify plays, which makes this a self-feeding monster. 1. Buy Spotify plays 2. Artists with millions of bought plays will enter these charts 3. Since these artists are now on charts, they must be popular, right? Swedish radio starts playing them, because FOMO - if they are this big on Spotify, how have we missed them!?? 4. Same artists become legitimately popular, since they get a lot of radio plays, mentioned on TV, other channels, etc. 5. More Spotify plays! Lots of these artists have then gone on to win prestigious awards, even though we don't really know how many of them were popular in their own right.
@borstenpinsel
@borstenpinsel 7 ай бұрын
This is not money laundering and it was an issue from the beginning, when charts were introduced on radio. Back in the vinyl times. Labels have been known to buyb their own records to simulate popularity
@HowieStephens
@HowieStephens 7 ай бұрын
They still do it to this day, same with books
@lukejay
@lukejay 7 ай бұрын
And don't forget that a lot of the lyrics encourage crime, and when played on the mainstream ends up inspiring impressionable youth who think gangs are cool...
@nickwallette6201
@nickwallette6201 7 ай бұрын
It's like Payola 2.0.
@kirkydaturkey
@kirkydaturkey 7 ай бұрын
Are you describing Ice Spice? 😂
@computationalerror69
@computationalerror69 7 ай бұрын
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
@prodbyjexus1
@prodbyjexus1 7 ай бұрын
so you CAN make money on spotify 😮who knew
@jmalmsten
@jmalmsten 7 ай бұрын
It goes to show how rarely I see paper and coin cash here in Sweden, that it took me some time to realize that the bank notes on screen are Norwegian, not Swedish. :)
@MrBeklager
@MrBeklager 7 ай бұрын
Its the old norwegian bank notes too
@Lt_Lobster
@Lt_Lobster 7 ай бұрын
Yeah I noticed instantly that they were wrong, but hey, it's the message that counts
@89ji76
@89ji76 7 ай бұрын
So many times some sketchy local artist has told me their album got streamed a bajillion times in Sweden. Now I know why.
@Yotrek
@Yotrek 7 ай бұрын
This needs to be a whole series. How to launder money in the music industry in every country. This is the kind of investigative journalism we need.
@Typical.Anomaly
@Typical.Anomaly 7 ай бұрын
Instructions unclear; I won a Grammy.
@adonisfernandez3425
@adonisfernandez3425 2 ай бұрын
You now can be called "Fly Weight".
@Basu117
@Basu117 6 ай бұрын
Great video. This phenomenon isn't exclusive to Sweden btw, a lot of German and Swiss rappers use botted stream to make it to the top of the charts and knowing their ties to organized crime we can make an educated guess where the money to buy the botted streams is coming from...
@aaronmarko
@aaronmarko 7 ай бұрын
"How much of your money is going to a con artist?" Well considering Spotify gives away most of their royalties to the big 4 labels, I'd say about 90% of it.
@fortheloveofnoise9298
@fortheloveofnoise9298 7 ай бұрын
The real reason Sweden got more violent is because they heard I will be moving from America to Sweden in a few years and they wanted me to feel more at home. I am thankful for Sweden being so kind to my feelings.
@N7sensei
@N7sensei Ай бұрын
Man, moving from a 4th world country to a 3rd world country. You must love pain. Why don't you move to a nice place?
@Faradaymusic
@Faradaymusic 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for actually calling these tactics fraud in your opening statement. There have been a handful of business bro podcasters bringing people on their shows to BRAG about committing literal fraud on Spotify. Some guy was claiming he makes $70,000 a month with bot plays across hundreds of artist accounts to avoid detection. WE NEED TO LITERALLY SEND PEOPLE LIKE THIS TO PRISON. Holy hell
@badfeng
@badfeng 7 ай бұрын
As long as investment capital keeps subsidizing bad business then the bad business will continue. Disney sunk $400M into Vice Media all for naught, for example (and did this after other investors had also done similar).
@CrystalMath_
@CrystalMath_ 6 ай бұрын
I watched that exact same podcast with that guy. He was an absolute bafoon and was also in jail for 2 year prior to that interview for wire fraud. It's never a worthwhile long-term strategy.
@Faradaymusic
@Faradaymusic 6 ай бұрын
@@CrystalMath_ yea I went and looked him up and found the court case where he stole like $4 million from his employer to pay for music gear (what a fucking loser). Goes to prison, then gets out AND STARTS BRAGGING ABOUT MORE FRAUD. What in the fuck is going on in this industry???!? We should be shunning people like that and anyone who works with them should lose all support/followers. We can't let shitheads like that dude and others keep controlling the music industry if we ever expect to have any amount of equality or justice for musicians.
@braincraven
@braincraven 7 ай бұрын
Thank you Benn, it's a bit depressing to see how digital culture is really making harder for musicians and artist.
@sub-jec-tiv
@sub-jec-tiv 7 ай бұрын
Welcome to humanity
@sawtooth808
@sawtooth808 7 ай бұрын
Especially when it was supposed to make it easier…relatively speaking.
@brmbkl
@brmbkl 7 ай бұрын
internet utopians didn't see that one coming did they after 30 years we can come to the conclusion that digital was a mistake the move from lp to cd and portastudio to usb interfaces wasnt worth the massive societal changes short of academia/medecine, Ive yet to see an upside/progress
@k_e_K_e___
@k_e_K_e___ 7 ай бұрын
Before the digital age it was even worse?? Nothing really changed everything just got easier 🤷
@jl3268
@jl3268 6 ай бұрын
You will be happy to see the solution presented in the PDF on unbounded capitals website
@JCtheMusicMan_
@JCtheMusicMan_ 7 ай бұрын
Speaking of pirating digital content, the Pirate Bay was founded by Swedes 😅 I love Swedes and have a few Swedish friends ❤
@KimStennabbCaesar
@KimStennabbCaesar 7 ай бұрын
Swedish programmer and μTorrent creator, Ludvig Strigeus, is one of the brains behind Spotify. It's basically p2p torrent tech.
@RadikAlice
@RadikAlice 7 ай бұрын
Which came about from some of the founders being in Sweden's Pirate Party Which is honestly, so unironically based. Intellectual property law has become nothing but a corporate golem, but nothing exemplifies that better than Disney's lobbying
@KimStennabbCaesar
@KimStennabbCaesar 7 ай бұрын
​@@RadikAlice The Pirate Bay was founded 3 years before the (political) Pirate Party was, fyi.
@Elixirmusiques
@Elixirmusiques 7 ай бұрын
Great research and presentation, Benn. Thanks for shining a light on this
@BlackAera
@BlackAera 7 ай бұрын
Benn I honestly love you for these videos. You bring some of the most interesting and unusual content on this platform. I wish I had found your channel sooner.
@spammus1
@spammus1 7 ай бұрын
Super interesting videos thank you for bringing this out to light, it sucks that small artists are getting screwed up by their peers too on top of corporations and greedy labels. I've been looking for an alternative to Spotify for a while now and got recommended on of your videos. I'd love to hear your in depth toughts on how streaming services are ruining how we discover and listen to music. Keep up all the good things you are doing to help artists out, music needs more people like you around
@FlirtForschung
@FlirtForschung 7 ай бұрын
If only someone could tell what exactly happened to sweden in those last 10 years… hmmm … I just can’t put my finger on it what that might have been…
@catheadhawk1973
@catheadhawk1973 7 ай бұрын
Excellent reporting on this. This is small news compared to money laundering but I've noticed fake albums on Spotify as well. I'm not sure how prevalent this is but I've seen old reddit posts of jazz fans complaining about it when they're trying to search past artists like Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Johnny Smith. I've encountered it looking up Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. The band Dramatis' album "For Future Reference" from 1981 has been recycled into 5 newer albums with nearly identical track listings, but shittier album art. There's 2 fake Dramatis albums: 2009's "The Dramatis Project" and 2012's "This is... Dramatis". There's the fake 2012 Tubeway Army albums "Ex Luna Scientia", 2016's "I Only Rewind", and the fake Gary Numan album from 2016 "Terrestial Channels".
@shr3dbeard
@shr3dbeard 7 ай бұрын
So random that a bunch of it is Gary Numan!
@kallekula84
@kallekula84 3 ай бұрын
Those are not fake, they are being released by whoever owns the royalty to the songs. If it is the artist themselves its them that's re-releasing it to Spotify that way...
@DaddaPsy
@DaddaPsy 7 ай бұрын
I did not expect you to cover this topic. This was big news in Sweden not long ago.
@Pablo668
@Pablo668 7 ай бұрын
In Australia, up until recently, money laundering was done mostly in Casinos and local clubs where they had gambling machines (pokies).
@davidemelia6296
@davidemelia6296 7 ай бұрын
A lot of the companies making pokies are now into making gacha games like Raid: Shadow Legends - the returns are way better, because online games can be pushed onto minors, and because unlike pokies, there's not a legally-mandated return to the gambler for online games.
@RadikAlice
@RadikAlice 7 ай бұрын
New South Wales's premier sure knew a thing or two about (profiting off of and aiding) it
@jonytube
@jonytube 7 ай бұрын
Laundering money on casinos was (and to a point might still be) one of the oldest and easiest tricks in the book all across the world.
@croozerdog
@croozerdog 7 ай бұрын
yeah that's been a main staple of the crime world, from Japan to Murica, casino's are ridiculously easy to launder money in
@AntoninusPius17
@AntoninusPius17 7 ай бұрын
Which part of aus you at? I’m Melbourne
@wreckage-vs5jv
@wreckage-vs5jv 6 ай бұрын
Keep in mind Swedish police/crime statistics are worth nothing anymore. And everyone knows the reason. The prime example of good intentions gone wrong.
@TheDailyMemesShow
@TheDailyMemesShow 7 ай бұрын
I just had to chuckle when I read your video title, that's genius 😂 You have a brand new subscriber
@friendwithin
@friendwithin 7 ай бұрын
Outstanding work as usual, Benn 👏🏼
@calebplumleeoutdoors
@calebplumleeoutdoors 7 ай бұрын
The older I get, the more i realize how very very few legitimate ways people make real (good) money in this world outside of working for corporations... and those corporations are likely doing the shady stuff for you
@jameezybreezy9030
@jameezybreezy9030 7 ай бұрын
True, unfortunately
@sfsarfe
@sfsarfe 6 ай бұрын
Yet another reason to use an ad blocker
@Thenextphasemusic
@Thenextphasemusic 7 ай бұрын
Always interesting when you are digging into the inner works of how streaming platforms work!
@loopop
@loopop 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for shining a light on this. Musicians may not be the only ones hurt by this (since the royalty pool is diverted to scammers): presumably, these click farms use free Spotify accounts - if that's the case, then advertisers are paying to show ads to bots
@loopop
@loopop 7 ай бұрын
@@Joe-sg9ll ads help fund the videos you watch on this platform and free music on Spotify. Screwing over advertisers hurts the creators you like to watch/listen to
@compucorder64
@compucorder64 7 ай бұрын
For me, it re-inforces the sense I've had that entities that hard broadcast paid advertisements on KZbin likely have a shady aspect. Distrokid, VPNs etc ... a topic you discussed a while back.
@sawtooth808
@sawtooth808 7 ай бұрын
You think ?
@johncoles3521
@johncoles3521 7 ай бұрын
Absolutely fabulous and brilliant video, Thank you Benn!!!!!
@anniesthesia
@anniesthesia 7 ай бұрын
What's your take on Spotify not paying out on a track unless it has 1000 annual plays? I'd be hit, but I'm not in it for the money and I think I'm pretty rare.
@mystixa
@mystixa 7 ай бұрын
They don't pay out on a track until it makes $.30 to $.50 .. thats 30 to 50 cents.. a much lower minimum than most institutions and companies will bother with.
@martti7363
@martti7363 7 ай бұрын
Spotify always making the most ethical decisions!
@RadikAlice
@RadikAlice 7 ай бұрын
Stole this joke from a friend, but it fits. Given their CEO invests in "defense" companies Yeah I support LGBT: Lockheed Martin General Dynamics Boeing The Raytheon Technologies Corporation
@sawtooth808
@sawtooth808 7 ай бұрын
Right about now The Hells Angels, The Commisso “Family” (who are “allegedly” part of the Ndrangheta) and Los Zetas Cartel are looking more ethical than Spotify, at least the three mentioned are upfront about what they do.
@hatpeach1
@hatpeach1 6 ай бұрын
Really, really, nice video, Benn. Subscribed. Keep them coming!
@cassildaandcarcosa294
@cassildaandcarcosa294 7 ай бұрын
I’m a software engineer who works in the stream royalties collections and writes software to fight streaming fraud. It’s awful.
@RyanReenBattikh
@RyanReenBattikh 7 ай бұрын
Do Android Streams Electronically Thieve? (shitty Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? joke lol)
@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx
@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx 7 ай бұрын
Explain to me why it’s so easy to bot
@kirkydaturkey
@kirkydaturkey 7 ай бұрын
@@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx ​​​​⁠you tell us haha. You're the one with over 60,000 subscribers on less than 500 total channel views 😆
@nyaa
@nyaa 7 ай бұрын
​@@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx no its really simple the engineers tasked with solving the fraud get paid less than the engineers doing the fraud it's really no ones fault but spotify
@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx
@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx 7 ай бұрын
@@kirkydaturkey nice try bro. U seem mad salty I’ve had this KZbin since 2013 and I used to be a successful KZbinr.
@phil_helix1191
@phil_helix1191 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for your videos Benn, amazing content
@ItsAName_
@ItsAName_ 7 ай бұрын
Absolutely wild. And a phenomenal telling of the story/what’s going on.
@bronzesoul
@bronzesoul 7 ай бұрын
Great video. The more I watch you, the more I respect you.
@AwkwardJapaneseKid
@AwkwardJapaneseKid 7 ай бұрын
As an up-and-coming fraudster new to the space but full of drive and love for the game, I’m glad to have discovered this video before 100k views. Shoutout to the youtube algo coming in clutch and Benn for the insightful content.
@synthphilosophy
@synthphilosophy 7 ай бұрын
Ok. Benefit #8 pushed me over the edge of deciding what next patreon to join ^^. ❤
@OfficiallyMaidenless
@OfficiallyMaidenless 7 ай бұрын
As usual, great video Benn. If I could request a topic for a future video; as a long time bedroom producer who get pleasantly surprised when I get over 100 streams on a song, what kind of options for promotion and exposure are there for people like me? Completely independent, trying my best to do in house mixing mastering and artwork etc, only thing that I can't just DIY are more ears on my work
@scuffedteddy6261
@scuffedteddy6261 6 ай бұрын
I saw this video reposted on tik tok, with no credit. But im glad i found the original video. Love from sweden 🇸🇪
@dylanlockemp3
@dylanlockemp3 7 ай бұрын
my music has been added onto botted playlists for unknown reasons and i'm always worried when it happens. i've never paid to be on a playlist and i always try to reach out and get it removed when it notice it. maybe it's part of trying to make the playlist seem legit?
@seanp2k617
@seanp2k617 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for the excellent meaningful thoughtful content as always.
@Charlesbabbage2209
@Charlesbabbage2209 7 ай бұрын
What changed in Sweden in the last eight years? Has there been a demographic shift?
@freedomisslavery6840
@freedomisslavery6840 6 ай бұрын
Yes, and he knows this. He is deliberately misleading his audience.
@tom23rd
@tom23rd 7 ай бұрын
One chunk of DMT hahaha I see you. Culture jamming at it's finest 😍
@xii226a
@xii226a 7 ай бұрын
Help me understand 😅😂
@tz4601
@tz4601 7 ай бұрын
@@xii226a Benn's patreon perks promise one chunk of DMT. DMT is an illegal hallucinogenic substance. Using standardized advertising formats to make protest statements against [capitalism/drug laws/etc.] is called culture jamming.
@crysstoll1191
@crysstoll1191 7 ай бұрын
I thought that was a nice option.
@tom23rd
@tom23rd 7 ай бұрын
@@xii226a watch the last segment again real closely, specifically the Patreon perks 😉 there's a few items in the list towards the bottom that were hilariously just kinda quietly included ironically, that the typical Patreon creator wouldn't dare. Either that or I am owed some DMT I wasn't aware of 😂
@apatt
@apatt 7 ай бұрын
Great work Ben!
@bradsucks
@bradsucks 7 ай бұрын
Excellent video, thanks Benn
@22goats87
@22goats87 7 ай бұрын
There was a real strange ad with some dude in Camo behind a shitty “interlaced” effect advertising some documentary he made about something big coming. Might be worth your next deep dive.
@fundrivendev
@fundrivendev 7 ай бұрын
You allowed me to laugh substantially instead of simply being depressed. Thanks.
@adonisfernandez3425
@adonisfernandez3425 2 ай бұрын
Hey. It still works on KZbin too. There are several "musicians" from the Dominican Republic involved into it. They admit it publicly and only 2 of them got their channels banned. In one specific case more than 90% of the video views seem to come from bots. 30 milllion views per month.
@borislau
@borislau 7 ай бұрын
Benn's on fire! 🔥
@jasonfifi
@jasonfifi 7 ай бұрын
before spotify, i knew a person that did structuring payment laundering for very rich people using itunes. it worked well back then because the purchase prices were much larger than stream payments... i seriously doubt it's possible now, this was back in like 2010-2012.
@jasonfifi
@jasonfifi 7 ай бұрын
this person ended up getting caught for at least some of these transactions, do not do this.
@THX-1138
@THX-1138 7 ай бұрын
"Swedes" lol Just lol
@BazmaNajem
@BazmaNajem 7 ай бұрын
Oh yeah gotta sit down for this video
@KordTaylor
@KordTaylor 7 ай бұрын
Another amazing Benn video. 😍
@AdamVanHine
@AdamVanHine 7 ай бұрын
Such a fascinating combination of music, technology, and crime!
@cheesehead4lyfe
@cheesehead4lyfe 7 ай бұрын
Very interesting! The first I've heard about this! Great videos!
@0xSLN
@0xSLN 7 ай бұрын
This video goes so fn hard. Thanks Benn!
@JoaquinMusterman
@JoaquinMusterman 7 ай бұрын
Great video, thanks Benn
@xxxent
@xxxent 7 ай бұрын
benn never fails to give us side hustle ideas 🗣️‼️
@BOBCATT-MEDIA
@BOBCATT-MEDIA 7 ай бұрын
Great work Benn
@jcpurleigh
@jcpurleigh 7 ай бұрын
The most interesting and surprising video report i've seen on youtube in a long time!
@isaac.anthony
@isaac.anthony 7 ай бұрын
Any decent accountant can make your ill gotten gains "look" legal for the gubment, it ain't that difficult, that's why most of our politicians aren't in prison when they take massive amounts of dark money from superPAC. You place WAY too much credit on the IRS who will ignore your gains as long as an accountant makes them look mostly legal, IRS don't have time or energy to comb thru every punters finances.
@MrSrgdrum
@MrSrgdrum 7 ай бұрын
Signed up for the chunk. Don't you let me down Ben, you beautiful entity you!
@nycrsny3406
@nycrsny3406 7 ай бұрын
Yo this is pretty wild lol! Great video!
@GabrielMillerd
@GabrielMillerd 7 ай бұрын
Another great deep dive, thanks
@MarcusCarlzon
@MarcusCarlzon 7 ай бұрын
great video as always, thanks!
@mghough
@mghough 7 ай бұрын
Interesting video. Thanks Benn .
@thetrashpanda9085
@thetrashpanda9085 7 ай бұрын
I'm so happy to have had a chance to watch this video before the YT Overlords flag it for whatever keywords they deem inappropriate at the time
@genesis_tracks
@genesis_tracks 7 ай бұрын
Hey Benn, what's the first song that you're playing in the video? Loving that choon!
@levifig
@levifig 7 ай бұрын
Talk about a descent into madness, holy crap!! 🤯
@DixonBeats
@DixonBeats 7 ай бұрын
"Gets to meet robbers" 😂
@Bthelick
@Bthelick 7 ай бұрын
I did it the old fashioned way: built a brand and worked hard. I'm over 100k streams a week and proud from a fully organic campaign (i.e no ads or boosts)
@linuxbender
@linuxbender 7 ай бұрын
Interesting, does that mean this schema could be done in all services that are similar e.g. youtube..impressions and ad clicks, google ad etc thx for the education
@trancelabsx
@trancelabsx 4 ай бұрын
Sorry to hear about your music. Best of luck to you
@user-gq6sf4si6j
@user-gq6sf4si6j 6 ай бұрын
I have found this information most valuable Mister Jordan, most valuable.
@stephenbaldassarre2289
@stephenbaldassarre2289 7 ай бұрын
The takeaway; if an "artist" is actually making money from Spotify, it's probably fraud. Of course, the reason artists don't make any money is because the industry makes defrauding artists legal.
@RadikAlice
@RadikAlice 7 ай бұрын
A rugpull as old as the music industry itself
@sawtooth808
@sawtooth808 7 ай бұрын
@@RadikAliceespecially when you consider the outside factors like organized crime using the recording industry as money laundering (“This is the music business Chilly, we’re all wise guys” - Harvey Kietel, Be Cool)
@mikabreto
@mikabreto 7 ай бұрын
Merch sold at live shows is the first way artists are able to make money legitimately
@OwenReynoldz
@OwenReynoldz 7 ай бұрын
Interesting! This reminds me of the "Black Mafia Family" from Detroit, where they were laundering money through rap concerts
@demoncorejunior
@demoncorejunior 7 ай бұрын
how does this tie in to the recent reporting that spotify is thinking of changing payouts to quash various types of content they feel is not "legit" enough to receive a payout?
@warringtonruncorn
@warringtonruncorn 7 ай бұрын
And Spotify is just about to make life worse for the genuine musicians out there by refusing payouts on songs with less than 1,000 streams. That’s more money going straight to AI artists and Swedish organised crime.
@gossamyr
@gossamyr 7 ай бұрын
and I thought sucking at music was the worst thing...I'm kinda glad my music sucks now, Benn you're better than ambien, ty.
@prestonsimmons5289
@prestonsimmons5289 7 ай бұрын
I saw the sweet modular setup, then looked at your chsnnel, then was ready to listen to you 😂
@leftistfrog404
@leftistfrog404 7 ай бұрын
ok now I know my brain is actually slow (also watching this at 6am is not helping), since I didn't fully grasp how this thing actually works I think :( but still, a great video Benn, as always! :) E: I think I get it a little bit more now, even after initial watch this thing seemed batshit crazy tho, also it's sad what happened to this swedish artist
@daniellindqvist3713
@daniellindqvist3713 7 ай бұрын
Not using Swedish bills for representing our money was a nice touch, mr. American! 😂
@dekonildo
@dekonildo 7 ай бұрын
Hahahha. I was about to mention the use of the neighbour's currency in some parts. Still wondering if it was intentional, though.
@vv6FiRE
@vv6FiRE 7 ай бұрын
thanks for the tut! :)
@hottunes2888
@hottunes2888 4 ай бұрын
8:14 What do you mean with this? Can you give an example
@Studio_4to1
@Studio_4to1 7 ай бұрын
The only channel worth viewing. Love this analysis
@DJDiskmachine
@DJDiskmachine 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for digging into this. I hope it gives Daniel Ek something to think about.
@RadikAlice
@RadikAlice 7 ай бұрын
That implies he has a conscience
@sawtooth808
@sawtooth808 7 ай бұрын
@@RadikAlice and ethics
@RadikAlice
@RadikAlice 7 ай бұрын
@@sawtooth808 Kinda goes without saying, but yes
@lindsaywebb1904
@lindsaywebb1904 7 ай бұрын
a german public broadcaster did an uncover thing a few years ago where the reporter (with no musiccal history) made a hip-hop track with the help of a good producer, released it and got it to chart by buying listens from a hacker. The thesis of the report according to the anonymous respondents they dug up, the artists probably don't know their success is down (at least partly) to money laundering.
@lindsaywebb1904
@lindsaywebb1904 7 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5rUiqiJhtyeftEsi=A81PuSxC2IlugFaJ
@user-og6hl6lv7p
@user-og6hl6lv7p 7 ай бұрын
If if Itunes ripped off musicians, why would anyone think Spotify wouldn't do the same?
@anonharingenamn
@anonharingenamn 7 ай бұрын
I've had two houses blown up within one mile away from my house in the past year lol. It's crazy what prohibition can do to a nation.
@fortheloveofnoise9298
@fortheloveofnoise9298 7 ай бұрын
Yeah Sweden is way too anti drug.
@dolgacevairina69
@dolgacevairina69 7 ай бұрын
What you described is not a case of money laundering. It's an arbitrage.
@merrilly-
@merrilly- 7 ай бұрын
that thumbnail is how you get put on a corkboard at the fbi hq
@Thunderkiss655
@Thunderkiss655 7 ай бұрын
As an Icelander I am highly offended! There are 42 of us 😁
@michaelcstachiw
@michaelcstachiw 7 ай бұрын
Came for the sensational headline, stayed for the dark humor
@MissMyMusicAddiction
@MissMyMusicAddiction 7 ай бұрын
is it wrong that i laughed my way through this video? it's like half-as-interesting broke out of the bin
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