Browse Spotify’s section for featured music podcasts, and at first you’ll find what you’d probably expect. Last week, the top five slots were filled by two familiar NPR shows, a hip-hop talk show hosted by perennial shit-starter Joe Budden, a glossy true-crime-style look at the rise and fall of Tekashi 6ix9ine, and a podcast offering song-by-song breakdowns of various popular albums.

Things got weirder as you scrolled. In the second row, there was “Juhn - In My Feelings (Spanish Version),” a “podcast” with only a single three-minute “episode,” which was actually just a cover of Drake’s “In My Feelings” by the Latin trap and reggaeton artist Juhn. The musician uploaded “In My Feelings (Spanish Version)” to YouTube in July 2018, just days after Drake’s original came out, but for whatever reason—issues around rights and royalties seem a strong likelihood—it is not available as a proper “song” on Juhn’s Spotify artist page. A year and a half later, someone evidently felt the desire to make up for this absence, so they uploaded “In My Feelings (Spanish Version)” to Spotify themselves under the guise of a podcast. Within a few weeks of its January 10 upload, it became popular enough to compete for space with “Dolly Parton’s America” and “All Songs Considered.”

“In My Feelings (Spanish Version)” is far from the only case of piracy hiding in plain sight here. Scrolling further down Spotify’s top music podcasts last week, you’d find “Bantal Empuk,” a self-described “collection of songs that aren’t available on Spotify,” featuring various non-album tracks by rappers Juice WRLD, XXXTentacion, and Lil Pump. Like all of the podcasts in question, it functions essentially like a playlist, with each song represented as a single “episode,” and none of the, you know, talking commonly associated with the podcast format.

Spotify and other major platforms like Apple don’t publicly disclose their processes for ranking podcasts, but industry experts believe the calculation involves a combination of factors like play count, number of subscribers, and listener ratings. The regular appearance of apparently pirated material on the music podcasts ranking raises the possibility that a song like “In My Feelings (Spanish Version)” is a minor hit that isn’t being formally accounted for.

Also recommended by Spotify last week was “rootbeer float,” which collected, among other things, a Hobo Johnson song ripped from a Tiny Desk Concert, a Childish Gambino freestyle, a lo-fi hip-hop remix of the theme song to the Disney Channel’s Gravity Falls, and “that song from that one tiktok lol.” (Readers of a certain age may recognize that last one as Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy,” or “that song from that one singing fish lol.”) Ranking just below that, the “FunkyMan” podcast advertised “some going viral remixes and songs which aren’t on Spotify”; “musicas q não estão no spotify,” recommended further down, included bonus tracks and demos from artists like Alec Benjamin and MARINA, as well as “Sweet Caroline with guns,” an absurdist remix of the Neil Diamond standard, which (like “Don’t Worry Be Happy”) is evidently popular on TikTok.

Like so much about contemporary culture that seems inexplicable to those over 30, the proliferation of all this unlicensed flotsam among professionally produced and distributed podcasts like “Song Exploder” may be partially attributable to every teenager’s favorite Chinese video-streaming app. While attempting to deduce the source of the sudden belated popularity for Juhn’s Drake cover, I found a YouTube compilation of teen girls dancing and lip syncing along to the “In My Feelings (Spanish Version) Challenge” on TikTok.