topic Album disappeared in Other (Podcasts, Partners, etc.)

Album disappeared

Nial619 — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:00:32 GMT

So I had the song 巴黎 from artist 方大同's album 危險世界 in a playlist. A week or so ago the track disappeared from the playlist and when I went to see why I noticed the album was no longer on Spotify. What would the reason for this be? I subscribed to Spotify for the decent amount of Chinese music on it, but if my current favorite album is no longer on Spotify I might have to reconsider my subscription.

Re: Album disappeared

MattSuda — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:13:43 GMT

The reason is that the artist or their music label has likely decided to remove it from Spotify.

The availability of songs on Spotify is up to the artist and their music label.
Spotify has no control over what content is available.

Sometimes it is only available in certain countries, while access is blocked to others.
Sometimes the album or song will be unavailable temporary, and come back again later.

You can find out more information here

Re: Album disappeared

Nial619 — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:30:44 GMT

Oh, well that helps. I mistakenly assumed they had a contract with them for the rights to certain artists' albums which is why it didn't make sense that this album and this album only would disappear. That is definitely a minus for this service...