Followers of Garth Brooks had been rejoicing Thursday night (1-2) because it appeared that Garth was lastly giving in and beginning to add his catalog to Spotify. Tracks from his second album No Fences from 1990 appeared on the streaming service after Garth beforehand swore it off for an unique take care of Amazon Music in 2016.
Nevertheless it’s fairly clear that Garth didn’t have a change of coronary heart, or was enacting a New Yr’s decision to lastly evolve with the remainder of the music world. As a substitute it seems he’s the sufferer of streaming fraud, which has turn into increasingly more pervasive on Spotify and different streaming providers through the years.
Not solely is the Spotify model of No Fences lacking three tracks (“Unanswered Prayers,” “Similar Previous Story”, and “Wolves”), in the event you take heed to “New Means To Fly,” it’s really a reside observe. A lot of the tracks sound like they’re at a decrease bit fee than regular, or one thing has been augmented with their sound, prone to circumvent Spotify’s fraud detection. All songs had been additionally marked as “express.”
Moreover, the copyright just isn’t Capitol Nashville, however “Garth Brooks,” and all of the songs are credited to “Garth Brooks, Stephanie Davis” versus the precise songwriters.
It’s possible the album will probably be taken down shortly as quickly as Spotify finds out in regards to the malfeasance. Nevertheless it does illustrate simply how simple it’s for just about anybody to add another person’s tracks to streaming providers, and begin incomes cash from spins.
In 2020, Saving Nation Music uncovered a sweeping tune theft scheme that included over 112 artists, and a few 831 complete songs the place the thieves took tracks from different performers, and distributed beneath pretend artist names. In April of 2024, Saving Nation Music additionally reported on nation artist Grant Langston having his unreleased album launched on Spotify, ostensibly leading to him dropping management of his personal music even earlier than it was launched.
The brazenness of thieves redistributing Garth Brooks materials proves it will probably occur to anyone, and the way lax the protocols proceed to be for importing songs. Garth is infamous for protecting his music off of something aside from Amazon, together with YouTube. A Reside in Germany album is on the platform, and was added in 2024, most likely in a separate deal.
Sadly for Garth Brooks followers with out Amazon music accounts, it means they’ll have to attend a bit longer to stream Garth’s music.
