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  "title": "Beatport / LabelWorx — Chart Eligibility, Promotional Activity, and Editorial-Pitching Verification Record",
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  "positioning": "Public-redacted citation index. Not accusations. Not conclusions.",
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    "Beatport promotional activity guidelines",
    "Beatport chart manipulation rules",
    "Beatport artificial sales",
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    "Beatport chart sales removed",
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        "label": "coordinated buying policy-risk flag",
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        "does_not_establish": "that a specific label, artist, distributor, buyer group, or individual engaged in coordinated buying"
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        "label": "Spotify play-count disparity observation flag",
        "alert_context": "A reporting-side instruction supplied on 2026-06-24 states that the investigation observed a disparity with Spotify play counts; this record preserves it as an unverified context observation unless source records are produced.",
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      "title": "Beatport Guidelines on Promotional Activity",
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      "title": "How to get a release featured on Beatport",
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      "source_type": "official distributor support page",
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      "title": "LabelWorx PromoWorx Force Feedback",
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      "title": "Beatport / LabelWorx Promotion Claims — Final Verification Summary",
      "public_summary": "Provided final-verification summary classifies Internal Buy Boost as an unverified named mechanism, PromoWorx direct chart influence as unverified, custom release pitching as confirmed and legitimate, and coordinated buying for chart movement as platform-policy out.",
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