D4vd's Apple Music page reportedly hacked amid murder charges

The Apple Music leafage for US vocalist D4vd was seemingly hacked implicit the weekend, with a opus titled I Did It added to his discography.

The musician, whose existent sanction is David Anthony Burke, is presently successful jailhouse connected charges of murdering and sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl, named Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

The teenager's assemblage was recovered past twelvemonth wrong a Tesla registered to Burke. He has denied each the charges against him.

A representation of the abandoned Tesla was utilized arsenic the artwork for I Did It, which has subsequently been removed from Apple Music. The opus appeared to beryllium a mentation of an unreleased way called Celeste, which D4vd allegedly recorded successful 2023.

In the lyrics, the vocalist professes his emotion for a miss called Celeste implicit a melancholy soft line, saying: "I perceive her dependable each clip I instrumentality a breath".

The opus archetypal leaked online successful December 2023, but was ne'er officially released.

Burke has ne'er acknowledged the leaked way was his work, and determination is nary confirmation that the Celeste mentioned successful the opus is Celeste Rivas.

D4vd's relationship was not the lone high-profile leafage connected Apple Music to beryllium hacked implicit the weekend.

A abstracted song, whose rubric utilized a radical slur, appeared connected the pages of some Ariana Grande and the miss radical Katseye connected Sunday.

Both person besides been removed, and determination is nary denotation the incidents are related to the D4vd song.

The BBC has contacted Apple Music to inquire for much details.

Surprisingly, it is not antithetic for high-profile artists to person fake songs added to their streaming catalogues.

In 2023, an AI-generated "duet" betwixt Drake and The Weeknd was removed from Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music aft their grounds label, Universal, said the opus violated copyright law.

A-list stars including Beyoncé, Harry Styles and Queen person besides had AI euphony added to their illustration pages - but the signifier has besides affected artists with much niche followings, including the precocious state prima Blaze Foley and folk vocalist Emily Portman.

In a abstracted scam, immoderate artists person uploaded songs that falsely assertion to beryllium collaborations with higher-profile musicians.

In each case, the songs are suggested to fans of the existent creator - and make royalty payments for the counterfeiters.

The fake tracks are exploiting a loophole successful the mode audio files are uploaded to streaming services.

Distributors are asked to supply the metadata for each idiosyncratic song, which makes it imaginable for a atrocious histrion to taxable euphony utilizing an existing artist's name, oregon 1 with a precise akin spelling.

Because the process is mostly automated, fake tracks often stay online until a rights-owner spots them and alerts the platform.

Earlier this year, Sony Music told the BBC it had requested the removal of much than 135,000 songs by radical impersonating its artists connected streaming services.

Spotify has besides acknowledged the problem, revealing past September that it had removed much than 75 cardinal "spammy tracks" implicit the erstwhile 12 months.

In response, it launched a instrumentality called Artist Profile Protection successful March, which allows definite musicians to reappraisal immoderate caller additions earlier they are added to their pages.

Even so, different fake D4vd song, titled Marcescence, was added to the star's Spotify illustration connected 18 July. It remained unrecorded for 8 hours earlier being removed.

D4vd, who roseate to fame connected TikTok with the viral hits Romantic Homicide and Here With Me, was connected circuit erstwhile constabulary recovered Rivas Hernandez's assemblage successful the beforehand footwear of his Tesla successful September 2025 - the time aft she would person turned 15.

His worldwide circuit was cancelled and helium mostly retreated from nationalist beingness and societal media.

Police announced his apprehension successful April this year; and prosecutors began laying retired their lawsuit against the vocalist astatine a preliminary proceedings past week.

They allege that Burke killed Rivas Hernandez aft she threatened to destruct his vocation by revealing helium had been abusing a minor.

He denies the charges. A justice volition determine whether the lawsuit should spell to proceedings aft preliminary hearings reason this week.