[Editor Charlie sez:  Welcome back to the Super Bowl of Whack A Mole.  This is a huge issue and shows again how little the services pay attention to infringing content because of the fake “DMCA license”.]

Spotify and other major platforms like Apple don’t publicly disclose their processes for ranking podcasts, but industry experts believe the calculation involves a combination of factors like play count, number of subscribers, and listener ratings. The regular appearance of apparently pirated material on the music podcasts ranking raises the possibility that a song like “In My Feelings (Spanish Version)” is a minor hit that isn’t being formally accounted for.

Read the post on Pitchfork.