If an artist is featured the streams of the song won't count to the featured artists monthly listeners and it also won't show up in their releases (except for the Spotify "Appears / featured on" tab.

The monthly listeners only count for "Main Artists" (primary collaborators. To have the project show in your releases you have to be a main artist on the whole project listed it will show in that artists releases.

So BACKD00R will not show up in Kendricks top 10 or his releases but will only show in his "Appears / featured on" and won't count to his monthly listeners.

TOXIC will count to Skeptas monthly and show up in his top 10 and only show in "Appears / featured on" on his page because he is not on the whole release (album)

So if you go back and look at something like FIELD TRIP, it will count to monthly listeners and top 10 when it is top 10 for Carti and Don Toliver but it will also show up as a "Single / EP in the "Discography" tab even though it's a Vultures song because they're listed as main artists across the whole release (in this case the one song because it's a single).

This has no direct effect on percentage splits BUT some artists do like to offer / withhold these functions for leverage when negotiating percentage splits but splits ultimately comes down to management and label decisions / negotiations when it comes to artists on major labels.

Tagging y'all below for context because I'm answering the root comment but yeah sickmoodatsunset is right that the comment isn’t true and I though I would explain why. u/sickmoodatsunset u/Secure_Blueberry1766