RBX has filed an amended class-action complaint against Spotify, reviving a streaming-fraud lawsuit that a federal judge dismissed in June.
The rapper, whose legal name is Eric Dwayne Collins, accuses Spotify of enforcing its anti-fraud rules selectively.
The platform cracks down on fake streams by smaller artists, the complaint says, while ignoring bot-driven streams that inflate the catalogs of stars such as Drake.
This alleged double standard has “diverted at least $600 million in royalties away from music rights holders,” according to the complaint.
The amended complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California on July 13, which you can read in full here.
It followed a June 22 ruling in which Judge Josephine Staton dismissed the original suit, while granting Collins leave to refile.
Collins first brought the case in November 2025, naming Spotify as the sole defendant.
Drake, described in the filing as Spotify’s most-streamed artist of all time, is not a defendant and is not accused of wrongdoing.
In dismissing the first complaint, Staton found that Collins had not shown Spotify owed him a legal duty to guard against third-party bots, and questioned its focus on a single artist.
The amended version answers those points, recasting the alleged harm as platform-wide and arguing that Spotify took on a duty to rights holders through its own public anti-fraud pledges.
Spotify “does not apply its anti-fraud policies evenhandedly” and “only enforces them selectively when it benefits Spotify,” the complaint states.
It alleges that Spotify “rigorously polices the low end of its streaming platform, where enforcement costs Spotify nothing and in fact, benefits its bottom line by imposing minimum-stream and unique listener thresholds that strip royalties from emerging and independent artists.”
“Yet, at the same time, Spotify declines to apply that same scrutiny to artificial streaming that inflates the catalogs of its highest-volume, ‘A-list,’ most lucrative artists such as Drake,” the filing continues.
Since April 2024, Spotify has required a track to reach 1,000 streams in a rolling 12 months – plus an undisclosed number of unique listeners – before it generates recorded royalties.
Those streams, the complaint argues, pad the user and engagement figures at the heart of Spotify’s advertising business.
Spotify counted 494 million ad-supported monthly active users at the end of June 2026, out of 777 million MAUs in total.
Drake remains the complaint’s central example.
It claims that “a substantial, non-trivial percentage” of the roughly 37 billion streams Drake logged between January 2022 and September 2025 “were inauthentic and appeared to be the work of a sprawling network of BotMusic Business Worldwide
