A U.S. district judge permanently dismissed the class-action alleging Spotify allowed billions of fake Drake streams, ruling Collins failed to show a legal duty or harm necessary for negligence.

The court described the Spotify–RBX relationship as a mutually beneficial economic one, not an illegal scheme, and found RBX lacked sufficient facts to support fraud or damages.

RBX’s revised claims failed because he did not identify a specific fraud-control rule Spotify enforced against some artists but not others, and his arguments about minimum streams or listeners did not prove selective enforcement against smaller acts.

Analysts view this ruling within broader tensions in the music industry over streaming fraud, licensing, and platform competition, with Suno positioned as a challenger to traditional catalogs.

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Lead attorney Mark Pifko said an appeal will be pursued, but the court indicated the same accusations cannot be refiled in federal court.

Related Drake-related petitions and cases involving alleged stream manipulation, UMG, and Stake.us appear in ongoing proceedings.

The court addressed all claims in a 16-page decision and found the amended complaint consisted of conclusory statements without specific supporting facts about selective policy enforcement.

The decision follows earlier dismissals in 2024 and 2025; any appeal would go to the Ninth Circuit.

UMG and Sony Music can depose former Menlo Ventures principal C.C. Gong, who noted shifting most listening to Suno, illustrating majors’ argument that Suno competes with traditional catalogs.

The dismissal comes after a separate Virginia case involving Drake and Adin Ross over bot-driven stream inflation tied to Stake.us, paused pending arbitration.

The ruling effectively ends the litigation with prejudice, preventing refiling of the same claims.