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When a new song attributed to country singer Blaze Foley, \u201cTogether,\u201d appeared on his Spotify profile last year, something didn\u2019t seem right<\/a>. For starters, Foley had been dead for more than two decades, and the cover art featured AI artwork of a man who wasn\u2019t Foley, and the song wasn\u2019t uploaded by Foley\u2019s longtime distributor. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fake tracks have appeared<\/a> on various artist profiles, including easy-listening act The Sweet Enoughs, and Australian bands Alpha Wolf and Thy Art Is Murder. Smaller artists are not safe either, with musician Catherine Brennan taking to TikTok<\/a> saying \u201cin the past two weeks I\u2019ve had two albums released under my name that are not mine.\u201d<\/p>\n Spotify on Tuesday unveiled a new effort designed to prevent these incidents from happening. The streaming giant\u2019s Artist Profile Protection service allows artists more control over the content that appears under their name.<\/p>\n While sometimes the error might come from bad actors, it can also be the result of less nefarious things like metadata mixups or confusion over artists with the same name. Regardless of the reason, artists can now prevent it altogether with Spotify\u2019s new feature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe know how frustrating this can be for both artists and fans alike and one of the top requests we\u2019ve heard from artists over the past year is that you want more visibility before music appears under your name,\u201d Spotify said in a press statement.<\/p>\n Artist Profile Protection is in limited beta and will allow participating artists to opt in for a review step before content goes live on their profile. <\/p>\n As of now, Spotify says it has invited a few thousands of artists to test the feature, with plans to scale it in the coming months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nHow it works<\/h2>\n