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The former CEO of singerYoungTak’s agency has been sentenced toeight months in prisonfor manipulating music charts.
They were charged with obstruction of business by computer interference due to their involvement in artificially inflating music rankings.
With these tools, they artificially streamed 15 songs 1,727,985 times to manipulate the rankings.
They also recruited brokers to request ranking manipulations and circumvented music site security systems that detect abnormal streaming patterns.
The prosecution identified 15 manipulated songs, including Young Tak’s ‘Why Are You There?
‘, Nature’s ‘Oopsie’ and KCM’s ‘Between Love and Friendship’.
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