I like how Anthony talks about something serious and interesting, and everyone in the comments are just trolling and reiterating memes. I don't think I've ever seen this kind of fan interaction anywhere else on TH-cam.
I'm Deep Watch and these are my ambient songs. I produce my generic music with my platform, Spotify. Both songs are boring and contribute nothing to the genre. One thing I've learned after releasing 2 songs - you never know WHO is gunna expose this shady behaviour.
There's quite some artists like this with playlist placements in big playlists without any other tracks or internet presence (and generic names). Example: Hollow Clouds - Cherry Pie Jam (appears in the Mellow Beats playlist)
Check out the artist 'Antologie' on Spotify. They have 2 ambient style tracks like Deep Watch, millions of plays and very strangely... use the same font and style in their cover photo. Also like Deep Watch, they don't show up anywhere else on the internet. I think the two might be connected in this.
What if it's a third party not affiliated with Spotify. They just commission artists and make lots of sister labels. Maybe this company has some connections to Spotify so they just get put automatically into a playlist. Just speculation, though.
also apparently the reason why all the top pop artists produce long-as-hell albums is because they want to accumulate number of plays these albums get so that they can get on Billboard charts.
My guess is that because Spotify has to pay artists royalties per play, it would then mean that heavily used playlists with fake artists end up cheaper for Spotify because if a certain % of the tracks are actually 'fake' artists that Spotify has created, then those would then be plays that Spotify doesn't have to pay for because theyre not going to be giving royalties to themselves
My theory is that this is the responsibility of just a few people in the Spotify company, as opposed to the company at large. Let's say you're a playlist curator, and you feel like doing some embezzling. You invent a fake artist, or hell, maybe even make the music yourself, and put it on a popular playlist. You get revenue, Spotify is none the wiser. Until now...
Honestly, I think Deep Watch is a person who isn't serious about music who wanted to give it a shot. They put the two tracks up and were like, "Eh, this isn't worth my time," or "Music-making isn't really my thing." Seems like a simple and plausible explanation. Edit: Saved the comment before finishing the video. Whoops! In response to your final point, you're right that we can only guess what's going on, at least until someone comes forward. It's good to retain some healthy skepticism here. That said, I doubt anything nefarious is going on. I feel like Spotify has better things to do than make bland ambient music and plant it into playlists to save a penny a day.
It happened to me. I downloaded an 80s and 90s playlists and there were like ten songs in each playlist that were not the original, but instead covers by unknown artists.
I've noticed same thing on Google Play Music. Few artists with one album each, made up of songs shorter than a minute. No online presence of these artists except same albums on Spotify. It was surprising to see something like that in Top Charts. Titles made absolutely no sense and seemed randomly generated.
I think it's weird but the most obvious non scummy solution is that someone is simply gaming the system by uploading two ambient tracks under an alias they created specifically for Spotify use and that is that, however I agree evidence is needed to put to bed the claims.
My theory: if you look at the “fake artists” they all use a distrokid label to distribute the tracks. I think distrokid or someone who works there or maybe even 1 person with a distrokid account is mass producing really simple ambient/instrumental albums and then releasing them on spotify to rake in some easy money
I'm sure others have stated, but not everyone wants to pay for a website or spend time on social media, and not everyone wants recognition. there's a very appealing aspect to anonymity. some people just want to make music.
Deep Watch obviously is an alternative project of Corey Feldman. That prolific man is unpredictable as Fantano announcing on Twitter that a 10 is coming.
years ago I saw painful mistakes on these playlists spotify suggested me, even sent a pissed feedback so they could change for better selections but to this day this part of them seems weird
I was on Spotify 2 days ago and there was literally an artist who only had 2 songs and both songs were covers off of Jay-Z's new album. And you Can tell he re-created the instrumental because on his "Story of OJ" cover there was no vocal sample at all. And he literally just used Jay's lyrics and song and covered it and credited the song as his.
A lot of discount stores and places that don't want to pay for services with named artists use companies that crank out royalty free/cheap license albums of sound-a-likes. A lot of the time the production companies make up the names to give it a bit of flavour and perceived value (instead of a roll call of session musicians) could this be the case? Could be that, or that Spotify are up to something shady
One of those fake artists showed up in my release radar playlist a couple weeks back. The band name is Heart and they have one album titled Sweat and Effort. It has 11 songs ranging from 1:52-1:56 in time and they're all just variations of the same song. A lot of them have these weird grammatically incorrect titles like "Looking Her Eyes" and "Nobody See You" as if they were made by someone who doesn't fully understand English. It says that its credited to Miriam Perez but i cant find virtually anything about this person or the album. Its very strange and I'm super curious as to how this album came to exist and who created it and for what purpose. I'm sure it has something to do with making quick easy money but the mystery of it is still intriguing to me
I think with how possible it is to get your music on Spotify, these random artists most likely just have either broken up or gave up on the project thus far etc
My guess is that Spotify has harvested some artists from Pandora, or CD Baby, etc. Not sure of their current status, but Pandora used to accept submissions from independent artists, and approve them on a case by case basis. My music is on there, and I am a relatively unknown artist with no label or representation.
I like Spotify because it has all the weird shit on it. I can listen to Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Daughter's Fur Beach. It's got t+pazolite on it, it's got KAGERO, it's got Marbin, it's got The Number 12 Looks Like You, it's got 385, it's got Hella, Lightning Bolt, and Melt-Banana. Goddamn I love you Spotify, never leave me. Thanks for making it so easy for artists to share their music
The whole Deep Watch thing could be a pseudonym an artist went under to make music under a different genre. Then after only making two 'unpopular 'tracks, they got bored and abandoned the whole thing.
I think the main thing to always consider in regards to any kind of "conspiracy" is who it benefits and how it benefits them I can't really see how it would benefit spotify in some substantial way.
The fact that they weren't willing to offer any sort of explanation for the extremely strange circumstances reported upon, and instead just gave a cold answer, effectively saying nothing more than "No, we don't do that" isn't very convincing, and is actually in my opinion another hint that they do do this, but don't want to talk about it. But you never really know. And like you said, not that it really matters at the end of the day or should be illegal or anything.
That response definitely wasn't enough. Like you said in the video, they need to show that at least some of these "artists" are actually signed to labels else where. Its really hard to believe otherwise.
I honestly don't think Spotify would do something like this although it would be interesting for an artist like Deep Watch to come out and explain how he got on this ambient playlist.
There are a few playlists I follow on Spotify with really obscure artists. You click on their profiles and they have a few singles and EPs here and there, but you can find their music on Soundcloud. I don't know if they fall into the same category as Deepwatch or not
i really really like the new channel! it's awesome each channel has a defined purpose now. fantano is for these type of commentary vids, and we have the other channel for only reviews and then thatistheplan for....u know
They didn't really explained anything in their statement. We still have a "band" or "project" which exists pretty much only on Spotify playlist, and nowhere else on the internet. Oh and btw. guys - check on Spotify artists related to Deep Watch. There's a shitload of such anonymous projects playing just the same type of vague ambient muzak, and they have a ton, a ton of listens every freakin' month. That's incredible. Most artists would love to get that amount of listens on Spotify. Hell...some of very good artists cannot reach half that number a month. Maybe it's a case similar to "white noise sounds" on TH-cam, which has millions of listens, because people play it to relax or sleep.
if you are just starting out you can use distrokid and for like $20 they get you onto apple music and spotify etc. maybe that's how these artists got on there, then someone one in the firm heard the music liked it and it ended up in a playlist.
maybe it's an algorithm that makes these playlists, depending on the sounds and stuff.. without looking at the popularity of the songs? then it could kinda make more sense?
we've never seen deep watch and Anthony in the same room
Kona Kai Anthony is just covering his tracks he is deep watch
Lol fuck yes to both of you. Would kill to get high and make deep watch jokes have a good day lol ❤️🖖🏻
We’ve never seen Anthony and Tegan and Sara in the same room
I sense a conspiracy
Fantano responds to allegations of "copying" theneedledrop
Poke Kay L
Poke Kay W
Stop Anthony Fantano
Poke Kay fantano doesn't copy the needle drop because theneedledrop does music reviews
AmonsRealm He's copying his appearance.
2:37 "shoutout to the fader" ooh that's awkward in hindsight
Why lol
@@TonyMacaroni69_ because of this: th-cam.com/video/2UZqIIy7pAk/w-d-xo.html
@@carl_hansson ohh now it makes sense, thanks! :)
Beat me to it
no love deep watch
Ryan Clarke Artificial Bands on the Spotify
I like the idea of Melonhead trying to go to bed and just not being able to close his eyes wondering to himself "WHO IS DEEP WATCH?"
I like it because it comes off of a "sleep" playlist
cue thatistheplan video "I am Deepwatch"
best comment on this video
Yes, please
Tupac is Deep Watch
*Jim Morrison
Zach Rowe *John Bonham
*cal chuchesta
*All of the above
/mu is deep watch
review the Deep Watch tracks
yea
would be a strong 2 probs
STRFCKR is pretty dank
its what i imagine ambient music sounds like to people who don't really get ambient music
I like how Anthony talks about something serious and interesting, and everyone in the comments are just trolling and reiterating memes. I don't think I've ever seen this kind of fan interaction anywhere else on TH-cam.
I like that he doesn't et this go....it is fishy!
kadin imdad
Reminds me of the good ol days of Rich Piana videos.
Rip big guy
Dunkey
Happens on all TH-cam channels
"Digging for Deep Watch" feature length documentary coming soon
2:38 Ant: "Shoutout to Fader."
...oh boy
the plot thiccens
I'm Deep Watch and these are my ambient songs. I produce my generic music with my platform, Spotify. Both songs are boring and contribute nothing to the genre. One thing I've learned after releasing 2 songs - you never know WHO is gunna expose this shady behaviour.
Is that a fucking Rick Harrison meme a year after it's relevancy?
Kolot Did you expect more from this comment section?
Kolot yes sir, only the most cancerous and outdated memes here
Unfortunately, yes
There's quite some artists like this with playlist placements in big playlists without any other tracks or internet presence (and generic names).
Example:
Hollow Clouds - Cherry Pie Jam (appears in the Mellow Beats playlist)
Deep watch is gonna take this ambient music game to ANOTHER LEVEL
Check out the artist 'Antologie' on Spotify. They have 2 ambient style tracks like Deep Watch, millions of plays and very strangely... use the same font and style in their cover photo. Also like Deep Watch, they don't show up anywhere else on the internet. I think the two might be connected in this.
What if it's a third party not affiliated with Spotify. They just commission artists and make lots of sister labels. Maybe this company has some connections to Spotify so they just get put automatically into a playlist.
Just speculation, though.
deep watch platinum with no features
ыøødy platinum with no existence
We're all Deep Watch
2:37
"shoutout to the fader"
top 10 anime betrayals
Deepthony Watchtano
angry reacts only
*WHEN YOU LEAVE BUZZFEED BUT BUZZFEED DOESN'T LEAVE YOU*
also apparently the reason why all the top pop artists produce long-as-hell albums is because they want to accumulate number of plays these albums get so that they can get on Billboard charts.
still a little confused... how would Spotify gain anything out of supposedly creating fake artists and tracks?
My guess is that because Spotify has to pay artists royalties per play, it would then mean that heavily used playlists with fake artists end up cheaper for Spotify because if a certain % of the tracks are actually 'fake' artists that Spotify has created, then those would then be plays that Spotify doesn't have to pay for because theyre not going to be giving royalties to themselves
My theory is that this is the responsibility of just a few people in the Spotify company, as opposed to the company at large. Let's say you're a playlist curator, and you feel like doing some embezzling. You invent a fake artist, or hell, maybe even make the music yourself, and put it on a popular playlist. You get revenue, Spotify is none the wiser. Until now...
Deep watch are more influential than Kanye west
Review a Martin Solvieg album already, melon.
Honestly, I think Deep Watch is a person who isn't serious about music who wanted to give it a shot. They put the two tracks up and were like, "Eh, this isn't worth my time," or "Music-making isn't really my thing." Seems like a simple and plausible explanation.
Edit: Saved the comment before finishing the video. Whoops! In response to your final point, you're right that we can only guess what's going on, at least until someone comes forward. It's good to retain some healthy skepticism here. That said, I doubt anything nefarious is going on. I feel like Spotify has better things to do than make bland ambient music and plant it into playlists to save a penny a day.
*I am deep wash*
will the real deep watch please stand up
"Shout out to the Fader"
Uh oh
Nice one. I searched for that comment
I feel like Deep Watch is a bad fisting joke.
Great mysteties of the past: Who killed Laura Palmer?Mysteries today: Who is Deep Watch?
Francesca S. Jinwoo what's up
It happened to me. I downloaded an 80s and 90s playlists and there were like ten songs in each playlist that were not the original, but instead covers by unknown artists.
I can confirm that Spotify responded to this because my band is on Spotify and our music is trash.
Wait, wrong video.
Come on dude......posting the same comment here? Kinda gay, I gotta be honest with you.
I ain't mad at cha get yo money dawg 😂
Whats your band? Wanna listen to it.
Daniel Tittyfish im a random guy and he gets my +1 for decent creaticity
“shoutout to Fader”
-Melon
Hahaha yeah I noticed too
This channel was so necessary.
Love it 🤘
I've noticed same thing on Google Play Music. Few artists with one album each, made up of songs shorter than a minute. No online presence of these artists except same albums on Spotify. It was surprising to see something like that in Top Charts. Titles made absolutely no sense and seemed randomly generated.
Anthony, when are you going to review the new Deep Watch album?
ElitexKing sp00ky/10
you gave deep watch a 7 but DAMN. a 7... shit
RonanShaughnessy Not funny.
UP THE RA
I think it's weird but the most obvious non scummy solution is that someone is simply gaming the system by uploading two ambient tracks under an alias they created specifically for Spotify use and that is that, however I agree evidence is needed to put to bed the claims.
My theory: if you look at the “fake artists” they all use a distrokid label to distribute the tracks. I think distrokid or someone who works there or maybe even 1 person with a distrokid account is mass producing really simple ambient/instrumental albums and then releasing them on spotify to rake in some easy money
I'm sure others have stated, but not everyone wants to pay for a website or spend time on social media, and not everyone wants recognition. there's a very appealing aspect to anonymity. some people just want to make music.
Got to say I am liking this new "Music Industry" commentary channel you got going on right now. Keep on keeping on.
Review Deep Watch
Deep Watch obviously is an alternative project of Corey Feldman. That prolific man is unpredictable as Fantano announcing on Twitter that a 10 is coming.
2:38 Fader switched up
years ago I saw painful mistakes on these playlists spotify suggested me, even sent a pissed feedback so they could change for better selections but to this day this part of them seems weird
I was on Spotify 2 days ago and there was literally an artist who only had 2 songs and both songs were covers off of Jay-Z's new album. And you Can tell he re-created the instrumental because on his "Story of OJ" cover there was no vocal sample at all. And he literally just used Jay's lyrics and song and covered it and credited the song as his.
Anthony,
How do you listen to your music. Do you buy digital albums, physical copies, or stream?
*Spoiler* Fantano is actually Deep Watch
we ghosthunters for spotify now
This new channel is probably my preferred channel right now. Keep it up, Fantano.
One thing I learned about Companies. When they say in a press release they are not doing something. They're lying.
I dig the shirt
AnimeAddict do you know what and whose artwork is it by?
#whoisdeepwatch #iamdeepwatch #deepwatch
A lot of discount stores and places that don't want to pay for services with named artists use companies that crank out royalty free/cheap license albums of sound-a-likes. A lot of the time the production companies make up the names to give it a bit of flavour and perceived value (instead of a roll call of session musicians) could this be the case?
Could be that, or that Spotify are up to something shady
So what I'm hearing is we can expect a Deep Watch Worst to Best soon. Good to know
Deep Watch up next, he one of the most underrated artists of 2017
I would really like to see a this exsist episode on this subject.
One of those fake artists showed up in my release radar playlist a couple weeks back. The band name is Heart and they have one album titled Sweat and Effort. It has 11 songs ranging from 1:52-1:56 in time and they're all just variations of the same song. A lot of them have these weird grammatically incorrect titles like "Looking Her Eyes" and "Nobody See You" as if they were made by someone who doesn't fully understand English. It says that its credited to Miriam Perez but i cant find virtually anything about this person or the album. Its very strange and I'm super curious as to how this album came to exist and who created it and for what purpose. I'm sure it has something to do with making quick easy money but the mystery of it is still intriguing to me
I think with how possible it is to get your music on Spotify, these random artists most likely just have either broken up or gave up on the project thus far etc
Top 2 Deep Watch tracks (Just in my opinion):
1. Endless Fragments of time.
2. Moments.
Honorable mentions:
My guess is that Spotify has harvested some artists from Pandora, or CD Baby, etc. Not sure of their current status, but Pandora used to accept submissions from independent artists, and approve them on a case by case basis. My music is on there, and I am a relatively unknown artist with no label or representation.
I like Spotify because it has all the weird shit on it. I can listen to Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Daughter's Fur Beach. It's got t+pazolite on it, it's got KAGERO, it's got Marbin, it's got The Number 12 Looks Like You, it's got 385, it's got Hella, Lightning Bolt, and Melt-Banana. Goddamn I love you Spotify, never leave me. Thanks for making it so easy for artists to share their music
shoutouts to the fader lol
The whole Deep Watch thing could be a pseudonym an artist went under to make music under a different genre. Then after only making two 'unpopular 'tracks, they got bored and abandoned the whole thing.
I think the main thing to always consider in regards to any kind of "conspiracy" is who it benefits and how it benefits them
I can't really see how it would benefit spotify in some substantial way.
I would contact some of the companies that publish to spotfy ex: cd baby, distro kid, etc and see if they licensed some of these songs to spotify
The fact that they weren't willing to offer any sort of explanation for the extremely strange circumstances reported upon, and instead just gave a cold answer, effectively saying nothing more than "No, we don't do that" isn't very convincing, and is actually in my opinion another hint that they do do this, but don't want to talk about it. But you never really know. And like you said, not that it really matters at the end of the day or should be illegal or anything.
That response definitely wasn't enough. Like you said in the video, they need to show that at least some of these "artists" are actually signed to labels else where. Its really hard to believe otherwise.
Wow Anthony gave Kendrick a Deep Watch out of 7 and Damn an *Auto-Generated AmbientPlaylist out of 7.
Not funny at all. Take this L fuck nigga.
Krystal... nice 👌
Giffica I
I honestly don't think Spotify would do something like this although it would be interesting for an artist like Deep Watch to come out and explain how he got on this ambient playlist.
REVIEW THE NEXT DEEP WATCH ALBUM
There are a few playlists I follow on Spotify with really obscure artists. You click on their profiles and they have a few singles and EPs here and there, but you can find their music on Soundcloud. I don't know if they fall into the same category as Deepwatch or not
i really really like the new channel! it's awesome each channel has a defined purpose now. fantano is for these type of commentary vids, and we have the other channel for only reviews and then thatistheplan for....u know
Theres lots of weird bands on spotify that disappeared, especially vaporware artists
thanks melon
yuu profited off CALs image. Get ur lawyer ready melon
No Love Deep Watch
Who is Deep Toot?
Deep Watch The Tapes (LCD Soundsystem cover)
They didn't really explained anything in their statement. We still have a "band" or "project" which exists pretty much only on Spotify playlist, and nowhere else on the internet.
Oh and btw. guys - check on Spotify artists related to Deep Watch. There's a shitload of such anonymous projects playing just the same type of vague ambient muzak, and they have a ton, a ton of listens every freakin' month. That's incredible. Most artists would love to get that amount of listens on Spotify. Hell...some of very good artists cannot reach half that number a month. Maybe it's a case similar to "white noise sounds" on TH-cam, which has millions of listens, because people play it to relax or sleep.
if you are just starting out you can use distrokid and for like $20 they get you onto apple music and spotify etc. maybe that's how these artists got on there, then someone one in the firm heard the music liked it and it ended up in a playlist.
Spotify should probably also respond to accounts being compromised left and right. They are careless with their security practices.
It wasn't no easy grab, they got T!
"by SYDNEY GORE"
That name is metal as fuck.
Deep Watch is Cal Chuchesta
I love hearing Anthony talk about stuff
maybe it's an algorithm that makes these playlists, depending on the sounds and stuff.. without looking at the popularity of the songs? then it could kinda make more sense?
You should do a fan Friday where you do a segment where you give opinions of the shit people send you and ask you to review
Spotify: *I DENY THESE ALLEGATIONS*
Nah I got some friend's band (who I somehow really enjoy, though they're a metal band) on Spotify that are basically impossible to google.
nice try deepwatch
I'm Deep Watch, posted those tracks cuz they didnt fit with my main project, "Troll Comments"
“Shoutout to Fader”
All they did was deny and pretend it didn't happen. Didn't really explain anything.
Deep Watch is Ambianthony Soothtanos new band and he's trying to create a mystery meme surrounding these two tracks.
#WhoIsDeepWatch?
Why did you title your video like a Paul Joseph Watson video?
I reackon they asked an employee to make an ambient playlist and the employee thought "i could make a bit of doler here"
TO DEEP WATCH A BUTTERFLY
from being obsessed with death grips to deep watch