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Bahrain News Gazette
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Bahrain News Gazette
Marc Mysterio Calls on Taylor Swift to Pull Catalog From Amazon Music Over Unpaid Streams, Shadow-Ban Controversy
Electronic Music Star Cites 80 Million Streams, Including 4 Million From Swift's Station, in Urgent Plea to Pop Icon Marc Mysterio Streams & Listeners on Amazon Music's Taylor Swift Station Marc Mysterio Streams & Listeners on Amazon Music's Taylor Swift Station from September 27th, 2023-September 26th, 2024amounting to nearly 3,700,000 streams from over 740,000 unique listeners. NEW YORK, April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Billboard-charting artist Marc Mysterio today issued a public call to Taylor Swift, urging the global superstar to withdraw her entire music catalog from Amazon Music until the platform addresses what he alleges is a deliberate campaign of unpaid royalties and digital suppression. Mysterio, currently suing Amazon Music and DistroKid in federal court (Case No. 1:25-cv-01705), claims he's owed millions for over 80 million streams—nearly 4 million of which came from Swift's own Amazon Music artist station—while facing an ongoing shadow-ban that has severed his 1.25 million fans from his work. Marc Mysterio in 2025 IBA Boxing Mandatory Challenger for (Vacant) Super Cruiserweight Intercontinental Championship vs. Jake Paul and Internationally Acclaimed Billboard Charting Artist Marc Mysterio Mysterio's appeal hinges on a personal connection: their mutual friend, WWE Hall of Fame wrestler Jeff Jarrett. Swift, who babysat for Jarrett's family during her early Nashville days, once shared a close-knit community with Mysterio, whose music rang out millions of times on her station. Now, he's asking her to leverage her pro-artist legacy—highlighted by her funding of Kesha's legal battle against Sony Music and Dr. Luke—to stand with him against Amazon's alleged exploitation. 'Taylor Swift has always fought for artists to get what's theirs—she helped Kesha take on Sony, and she's threatened to yank her catalog from streamers over unfair pay,' Mysterio said in a statement. 'Now, her name, image, and likeness are being used on Amazon Music's Taylor Swift Station to unjustly enrich a company that's stiffed me on 80 million streams, including 3.7 million from her own fans. She'd be distraught to know this, and I'm asking her to pull her music until Amazon pays me, lifts this shadow-ban, and lets justice play out.' Mysterio's demands are threefold: Full payment for all streaming activity tied to his ASIN 'B0041A1P4U,' including the nearly 4 million streams from Swift's station, which plummeted to zero alongside his own station's 225,463 plays after an alleged 'IF/THEN' filter hit on September 10, 2024. Immediate removal of the shadow-ban, which he claims Amazon partially acknowledged by restoring his 'Related Artists' section in March 2025—after his lawsuit—but left in place elsewhere, costing him chart positions and fan access. A direct line of communication, asking Swift to obtain his personal email from Jarrett to arrange a phone call or meeting to discuss the crisis and rally support. The artist, known for collaborations with Flo Rida, Samantha Fox, and Crash Test Dummies, points to Swift's history of pulling her music from Spotify in 2014 over royalty disputes as precedent. 'Taylor's a titan because she stands up,' he said. 'Amazon's using her station to profit while I'm ghosted—80 million streams, millions in losses, and they won't even fix it. She can get Jeff Jarrett to give her my email. Let's talk, Taylor—this is our fight.' Mysterio's legal team, led by Michael H. Joseph, served Amazon with a 17-category preservation letter on April 8, 2025, demanding metadata, snapshots, and logs tied to his ASIN. He alleges Amazon's refusal to pay and partial fix—restoring only 'Related Artists' after his February 27 filing—prove intent to suppress, whereas Amazon could have simultaneously removed the shadow-ban, but did not. 'They've got the data to pay me and lift the ban,' he added. 'If Taylor pulls out, they'll feel the heat,' Mysterio concludes. Swift, whose catalog drives billions of streams, has not yet responded. Jarrett could not be reached for comment. Contact: Michael H. Joseph, Esq. Law Office of Michael H. Joseph, PLLC [email protected] (212) 858-0503 About Marc Mysterio: Marc Mysterio is an Irish-Canadian artist, Billboard-charting producer, and boxer with over a decade of hits and a potential IBA Super Cruiserweight Intercontinental title fight against Jake Paul. His lawsuit against Amazon Music and DistroKid seeks millions in damages for unpaid royalties and shadow-ban losses. Photos accompanying this announcement are available at A video accompanying this announcement is available at GlobeNewswire Distribution ID 1001079184
Bahrain News Gazette
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Bahrain News Gazette
Marc Mysterio's Attorney: Amazon is ‘playing god with data' Billboard uses for charts
Marc Mysterio in 2025 IBA Boxing Mandatory Challenger for (Vacant) Super Cruiserweight Intercontinental Championship vs. Jake Paul and Internationally Acclaimed Billboard Charting Artist Marc Mysterio NEW YORK, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Marc Mysterio's legal team, led by attorney Michael H. Joseph, will serve Amazon Music's counsel with a letter of preservation of evidence imminently—as noted in Marc's 3-Part YouTube Series exposing the Shadow-ban placed on his music using the IF/THEN protocol employed by Amazon Music— escalating the Irish-Canadian artist's lawsuit against Amazon Music and DistroKid (Case No. 1:25-cv-01705). Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Feb. 27, 2025, the suit claims damages 'in excess of $75,000,' with losses in the millions to date, alleging Amazon employed a shadow-ban on Mysterio's songs by deploying an 'IF/THEN' filter—essentially a simple 'if this, then that' command, like telling a computer, 'If it's Marc's music, then mark it with a dash ('-')'—rendering his tracks 'artist-less' and unable to reach his 1.25 million fans, play on Amazon Stations, connect to related artists' fans, or be considered for AI features normally available to all artists, even the below-mentioned, unheralded Neon Tom. Mysterio, a 20-year music veteran and one of Amazon's top global stars with over 80 million streams from September 2023 to August 2024—55% from Amazon Stations—saw his music blocked by the shadow-ban starting Sept. 10, 2024. The ban also threatens chart integrity, notably the Billboard Hot Dance and Electronic Songs Chart, where Mysterio charted based solely on Amazon streams.. Marc Mysterio Streams/Listeners from 2024 Amazon Music For Artists Marc Mysterio Streams/Listeners from 2024 Amazon Music For Artists By arbitrarily shadow-banning a charting artist for reasons known only to Amazon, the company can manipulate positions on independent charts like Billboard in the U.S. and the UK Official Charts, undermining the credibility of Billboard Magazine's staff, artists, and their teams. 'Amazon's playing god with data that charts like Billboard Magazine—totally independent with no business ties to Amazon beyond collecting stream stats—rely on for calculations, for charts that Billboard's readers and paying subscribers rely on,' Joseph said. A 3-part YouTube series strengthens Mysterio's case: Video 1 (March 19, 2025) shows 'streaming errors' across his profile; Video 2 reveals 'My Sabrina Carpenter Mix' with 17 of 50 songs by Carpenter, while 'My Marc Mysterio Mix' has zero of 50 by Mysterio, contrasting Amazon Music Stations—algorithm-driven streams, not playlists—where Neon Tom, an artist with zero Amazon fans (equivalent to followers), lands two of the first 10 songs on his station, while Mysterio's station played nearly 50 songs with none of his own. Video 3 details his station's 225,463 streams and 57,453 listeners from the noted calendar year, and the Taylor Swift station's 3,698,968 streams and 742,696 listeners of Mysterio's songs from the noted calendar year, both bottoming out to zero on Sept. 25, 2024. Marc Mysterio's 3-Part YouTube Series expose Amazon's IT backend, for example: Mysterio's artist page URL ( ) works without '/marc-mysterio' ( ), proving the 10-digit code 'B0041A1P4U' drives identification—a key for discovery subpoenas. Amazon's partial restore of Mysterio's 'Related Artists' to their pre-shadow-ban state in March 2025, post-complaint, without removing the shadow-ban itself, fueled the fight. 'They showed they could fix it but didn't,' Joseph said. 'It's more foolish than a 4th down trick play gone wrong.' The preservation letter targets 17 evidence categories tied to 'B0041A1P4U,' including metadata logs proving the shadow-ban's scope from Sept. 10, 2024, backup snapshots showing Amazon's restore capability, algorithm trails pinning intent, station logs quantifying damages—225,463 streams on Mysterio's station and 3,698,968 on Taylor Swift's, both zeroed by Sept. 25, 2024—and user metrics revealing 1.25 million fans cut off, per the YouTube series—all of which are dispositive to Marc's claims contained in his lawsuit. 'Amazon's half-fix—restoring Mysterio's 'Related Artists' to their pre-shadow-ban state without removing the shadow-ban itself—is their 4th down fumble; they have essentially handed us the win by fixing and restoring the related artists portion of Marc Mysterio's Amazon Music Artist Page but not simultaneously removing the IF/THEN code responsible for the shadow-ban when Amazon's IT Staff could easily have done so—it shows clear and convincing intent to cause undue harm to Marc Mysterio, and the logs sought will show this' Joseph said, eyeing punitive damages. Mysterio, known for collaborations with David Guetta, Crash Test Dummies, Flo Rida, Samantha Fox, and Trailer Park Boys—where he composed, appeared as a guest star DJ, and earned an IFPI Gold Award for the anthem from the Netflix Series entitled 'L&W' (an abbreviation of the song title due to the explicit song title)—also scored a Gold Award with Alexandra Stan for 'Balans.' He holds IBA boxing recognition as a contender for a vacant world title against Jake Paul. 'I was a top Amazon star who entrusted them as a voluntary exclusive artist, pulling my catalog from Spotify and Apple—if they'll mistreat me like this, they could and likely would do it to any star, no matter how successful globally or how much you do for the community, including assisting terrorist victims' Mysterio concludes. Marc Mysterio's 3-part YouTube series exposing the Amazon Music shadow-ban can be viewed at which links directly to the playlist. For More Information Attorney for Plaintiff Marc Mysterio: Law Office of Michael H. Joseph 18 West 33rd Street, Suite 400 New York, NY 10001 Tel: +1-212-858-0503 [email protected] Marc Mysterio on X – Full Grok Bio Available @marc_mysterio Photos accompanying this announcement are available at A video accompanying this announcement is available at GlobeNewswire Distribution ID 1001079052
