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  "textContent": "Tuesday, Malcolm Todd — the Steve Lacy-esque alt-pop artist and brother to fellow rising star Audrey Hobert — was awarded his first #1 song on Spotify when \"Earrings\" topped the Global Daily singles chart with 4.165 million streams. However, after a Kalshi trader noticed something suspicious about the numbers, the streaming service confirmed fraud and deleted more than 500,000 of the song's streams, leaving it at #4.\n\nThe post Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Flags Suspicious Malcolm Todd Numbers appeared first on Stereogum.",
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