I've just noticed that there's a Greek electronic music composer named Sakis Gouzonis who's suddenly, somehow, exploded in popularity on the BEA charts within the last couple of months. He now has thirteen albums in the all-time top 10,000, including one (New Earth) that's currently at #2192. None of these albums appears on more than 9 charts, and most are on only 2 or 3. This seems a little... well, I'll just say it seems odd.
Well, let's not all jump to conclusions and assume that BEA members openthegates, musicawareness, BeatsPerMinute, and BestMusicAlbums are all the same person just because they started their accounts about 3 weeks ago and within a few days of each other, all have exactly the same taste in music, and all have rated Sakis' New Earth album as the Greatest Album of All Time. Nor should we all assume that the fact that all 17 of Sakis' free-to-download albums have reviews on Discogs that read as if they were written by the same person (or AI) but were posted by different user accounts who all joined Discogs within the last 4 months (and have shown no other appreciable activity there) means that something "fishy" is going on.
I mean, sure, I'm jumping to those conclusions, but that doesn't mean we all have to. 😄
I've just noticed that there's a Greek electronic music composer named Sakis Gouzonis who's suddenly, somehow, exploded in popularity on the BEA charts within the last couple of months. He now has thirteen albums in the all-time top 10,000, including one (New Earth) that's currently at #2192. None of these albums appears on more than 9 charts, and most are on only 2 or 3. This seems a little... well, I'll just say it seems odd.
Thanks for reporting and also to MadhattanJack & II for the great analysis. This is not the first time this artist has been investigated.
Just going through this list now to pick out any legit users from the rest. I wish people wouldn't do this, it's a complete waste of time for all of us (including the people making those accounts).
Thanks, most of these accounts now banned with the exception of a few that didn't share some of the underlying metadata. (Need to be careful not to be too heavy handed as don't want people penalised unfairly).
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