Marc Mysterio fights back with lawsuit over Amazon Music royalty losses
Marc Mysterio, a Billboard-charting artist and undefeated professional boxer—recently sanctioned by IBA Boxing for a title bout against Jake Paul—has submitted new evidence in his lawsuit against Amazon Music (Case No. 1:25-cv-01705, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York). The Irish-Canadian musician alleges Amazon used an “IF/THEN” filter to disable his music’s visibility and viability on the platform.
According to court filings, Mysterio, who voluntarily served as an Amazon Exclusive Artist between September 2023 and August 2024, amassed 80 million streams. He claims Amazon’s internal filter replaced standard artist-level metadata with a blank “-” symbol—stripping tracks of artist attribution and eliminating fan alerts and streaming through stations.
Supporting documents include a letter of preservation demanding 17 categories of data, including Amazon logs showing the filter’s activation timeline, the authorizing individual, error reports filed by users, and the identity of the programmer responsible for implementation.
One particularly telling example cites the appearance of Mysterio’s music on Taylor Swift’s Amazon station, which garnered 3.7 million streams in 2024 before sharply declining in September. Mysterio asserts that the drop was due to a shadowban imposed by Amazon.
“Amazon profits from creators whilst blacklisting artists through shadow-banning,” said Mysterio.
Mysterio has urged Taylor Swift to remove her music catalog from Amazon in protest. He invoked her history of standing up for artists’ rights—such as her Spotify boycott and public support of Kesha—as reasons why her voice could lead meaningful change. The two reportedly share a mutual friend in All Elite Wrestling’s Jeff Jarrett.
“I’ve posted video evidence on shadowban.me—a 3-Part Series—I’m calling on Taylor to stand with me in unity against shadow-banning. When she pulls her catalog from Amazon, it solidifies her as The Anti-Hero. Jeff has my contact details—let’s talk,” Mysterio said.
Mysterio’s ties to Swift’s circle include a Billboard article where he and Swift’s partner Travis Kelce were co-featured for their chart entries.
The lawsuit, which seeks millions in unpaid and lost royalties, comes amid the success of Mysterio’s hit “The Dancefloor” and prior collaborations with major names such as Flo Rida, David Guetta, Crash Test Dummies, Samantha Fox, Netflix’s Trailer Park Boys, and Avicii, according to Billboard.
