# Spotify wins permanent dismissal of lawsuit claiming it ignored ‘billions’ of fraudulent Drake streams

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/spotify-wins-permanent-dismissal-of-lawsuit-claiming-it-ignored-billions-of-fraudulent-drake-streams/
- Published: 2026-10-27T11:56:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T12:41:17+00:00
- Original publisher: Music Business Worldwide
- Original article: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-wins-permanent-dismissal-of-lawsuit-claiming-it-ignored-billions-of-fraudulent-drake-streams/

## Key points

- A judge permanently dismissed RBX’s lawsuit against Spotify.
- The complaint alleged fake Drake streams diverted at least $600 million.
- The ruling found Spotify had no duty to protect RBX from bots.

## Summary

A US federal judge has permanently dismissed rapper RBX’s lawsuit alleging Spotify allowed bots to inflate Drake’s streams and reduce royalties paid to other rights holders. The ruling ends the case and prevents RBX from bringing the same claims again, finding that Spotify had no legal duty to protect him from third-party bots.

RBX, whose legal name is Eric Dwayne Collins, filed the case in November 2025 on behalf of US music rights holders. His complaint alleged that a substantial share of Drake’s roughly 37 billion Spotify streams over a 48-month period through 2025 were fake, diverting at least $600 million in royalties. Spotify’s monthly royalty pool is divided according to each track’s share of streams in a market; the complaint also challenged the platform’s enforcement of anti-fraud rules and its 1,000-stream annual threshold for royalty eligibility.

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