Works better on a quiet track, where a small batch is not buried under attention arriving from somewhere else.
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Play counts on this platform are aggregated and reconciled rather than incremented live, which means a small batch is genuinely hard to see. Twenty units may take a day to appear and may then sit inside the ordinary movement of a track that already gets listened to. That is not a defect in the sample; it is what happens when a small number meets a slow counter.
The practical consequence is that this particular test rewards patience and a quiet upload. Run it against a track that is not currently getting attention from anywhere else, and the reading is clean. Run it against your newest release during its first week and you will not be able to separate one source from another.
That an order placed at this address reaches the right file. On a catalogue spread across distributor pages and duplicates, that is worth confirming before anything larger. Everything about pacing, proportion and timing belongs to a longer run, and a sample has nothing to say about any of it.
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