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Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Flags Suspicious Malcolm Todd Numbers
Tuesday, Malcolm Todd — the Steve Lacy-esque alt-pop artist and brother to fellow rising star Audrey Hobert — was awarded his first #1 song on Spotify when "Earrings" topped the Global Daily singles chart with 4.165 million streams. However, after a Kalshi trader noticed something suspicious about the numbers, he brought up the matter with the streaming service, who confirmed fraud and deleted more than 500,000 of the song's streams, leaving it at #4. The post Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Flags Suspicious Malcolm Todd Numbers appeared first on Stereogum .
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