Your distributor says a track had artificial streams but won't say where they came from. Paste the playlists from your Spotify for Artists page. SpotCheck scores each one for bot-farm patterns and drafts your reply.
In Spotify for Artists, open Music, choose the flagged track, then open Playlists.
Open each playlist in Spotify and copy its link (Share, then Copy link to playlist).
Paste them all below, one per line. Up to 50 at a time.
When your distributor flags artificial streaming, it is passing on a signal from Spotify: streams on one or more of your tracks came from accounts or patterns Spotify considers inauthentic, and the streams are being removed. Distributors pass these warnings on without detail, so you usually learn that a track was flagged but not which playlists sent the streams, whether they were bought by a promoter you paid, or how to respond without making things worse.
The most common source is a playlist you did not choose directly: a promotion service you paid for a campaign, or a third party who added your track to lists you never vetted. Bot-farm playlists tend to share traits that show up in public data: follower counts that jump in bursts, engagement that does not match the audience size, and networks of lists that behave the same way. Reading those signals is the point of the scan above.
Paste up to 50 playlist links from your Spotify for Artists page. SpotCheck scores each one for bot-farm patterns, flags the lists that look worst, and drafts a reply you can send to your distributor explaining what you found and what you are doing about it. You keep the evidence either way: even if the flagged playlists were not the source, knowing which of your placements carry bot risk tells you where not to spend again.
The scan is free to run, two scans a day on the free plan. SpotCheck also scores any single Spotify playlist before you pitch or pay, on the bot checker or in the browser extension: three checks a day free with an account, Pro (£4.99/mo) with the full breakdown and export, Premium (£14.99/mo) adding curator contacts and playlist watching. If you are choosing promotion services after a warning, the guide on what playlist promotion actually costs and the tool comparisons are the sensible next reads.
The wording differs by distributor but the job is the same. The DistroKid artificial streaming notice guide covers what DistroKid says, including its re-upload route. What TuneCore, CD Baby, FUGA, Amuse and UnitedMasters publish about Spotify's €10 fee is in the distributor fee guide. For the steps in order, read what to do after an artificial streaming warning and how to find the playlists behind the flag.