French Montana’s song “Writing on the Wall” is charting on Spotify this week, but at least one Twitter user believes the rapper and his team are cheating the system.
The single which features Post Malone, Cardi B, and Jamaican pop star Rvssian debuted on September 27, 2019 but only lasted five weeks on the Billboard Top 200.
Last week, “Writing on the Wall” reentered U.S. streaming charts.
This recent spike in streams caught the attention of Twitter user @karlamagne. On Thursday (January 3), he posted Twitter thread explaining why he believes French and his team are hacking personal Spotify accounts to boost their streaming numbers.
The screenshots provided by @karlamagne are circumstantial and do not offer concrete proof of any pay-for-play actions taken by French or his team.
For one, the song is only rising in popularity on one major streaming platform: Spotify. While “Writing on the Wall” rose 27 spots to be within the top 50 on Spotify, the single simultaneously dropped a whopping 105 spots on Apple Music, settling in at No. 1192.
The second bit of alleged irony involves personal Spotify accounts being hacked the same week the song re-entered the charts. The original thread posted by @karlamagne includes screenshots of more than a dozen Twitter users claiming their Spotify accounts were hacked between December 18 and December 23.
The tweets state the users’ passwords had been changed and they had been effectively locked out of their accounts. Many of the users affected by the alleged cyber-attack claim the hackers used their accounts to stream a bizarre mix of foreign pop songs and French Montana’s three-month-old single. “Writing on the Wall” reentered Spotify’s U.S. Top 50 streaming charts on December 22.
Whether French and his camp are buying streams is still speculation, but according to TechCrunch.com, Spotify noticed suspicious activity last year, and changed a few accounts passwords.
Watch the video for French Montana’s “Writing on the Wall” below.
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You guys are making an article based off a comment by some random person on Twitter? Step your journalism up.
looks legit
It’s in conjunction with the 50 cent back and forth… people will click.
These rump rager writers have nothing better to do on a Friday night
More ammo for 50
No surprise. This guy is one of the worst rappers of all time. In the last decade I only met one person that admitted to being a fan of this guy (she said French Montana and Meek Mill were her favorite rappers, that was like 2012 btw). He’s the biggest leach I’ve ever seen. This guy clique hopped from G-Unit to Dipset to Brick Sqaud to Konvict Music to MMG to Bad Boy burning bridges all along the way. Now he’s in with the OVO/XO crowd. I’ve never seen someone with so retarded with so little talent have this much push by the industry. This snake filmed DJ Khaled’s momma sleeping at work for ThisIs50 when 50 was beefing with Ross and Khaled.. now he’s their “brother”.
This guy really put out an album with like 3 old singles from 3 or 4 years ago featuring Kodak Black and Drake just so he could cheat the system and claim a gold album 2 days after it came out!! When NO ONE was actually buying or streaming his album. That Swae Lee song was like winning the lottery, he bought the song already made and put his trash self on
Thats real shit i remember playing the album like wtf is this old shit.
Its not French boosting the streams. Its Post. If u paid attention Post Malones last album broke all types of streaming records. I saw the numbers shoot up crazy. He might have more fans than French, but aint 50 Post fans for every French fan either.
Not gon lie it’s a couple artists I know that play automatically on my Apple Music even though I never picked that song.
Anyone surprised drake does it all the time
FrenchFry is FAKE FRAUD! LAMEST cRapper EVER! Corny azz Sand Nicca with LAME Azz BS! Shoulda STAYED in tha Hospital, gonna END UP BACK THERE!
Sand Ni**a?? He’s African…period….y’all wildin…that’s the problem with negroes always hating…u had to say all that??? That’s why u ain’t shit …and on here hating. .smh
French a fucking bum period I’d never buy this pussys music pure garbage always will be
“How many y’all faking y’all streams? Getting played by machines? I can see through all the smoke and mirrors n***** ain’t really big as they seem” – talk your shit, J Cole.
straight up, cole sees it for what it is
I don’t believe any “streaming Numbers” for any artist to begin with. It’s all fake and in no way can equate to any type of sales no matter how you try and justify it.
Agreed. It sucks that it is what profit in music has come to, because click bait is all its about now. Back in the day, to make money off of music, you had to give the people something great, otherwise nobody would bother purchasing the album. Now, people will simply click “play top 10”, or will stream shitty music just because it’s funny to make fun of. This is leading up to everything becoming crappy click bait. Music is becoming about views, just like the news is as well. All about clicks… So now, when Drake or some other big name artist breaks a record from The Beatles, Elvis, Aerosmith, Michael Jackson, ect… I say it doesn’t mean Jack shit.
Wrench Montana the ultimate tool.
This is terrible journalism. First off, the hacking thing is absolute and complete speculation. Totally arbitrary and made up. Second off, EVERYONE in the industry pays to push their singles on streams, the same way they used to push singles more so on radio and MTV/BET. Lol FAKE NEWZ.
Not speculation. My account was one of the ones hacked and the only song played on a loop was Writing on the Wall. So much that it shot up to my most played song of 2019 even though all I listen to is Rock.
Oh how convenient. Click farms make trap artist appear more appealing and liked by the consumer. It’s all fake WWE. Trap music is the worst! Y’all have to fake your streams…
him drake post all the names u see on the charts all cheat and hack the system. this isnt news.
These streaming sites might be taking payola. I wouldn’t be surprised if a scandal is revealed in future