topic Re: Missing Barenaked Ladies Album in Other (Podcasts, Partners, etc.)

Missing Barenaked Ladies Album

adamfairholm — Sun, 04 May 2014 16:35:15 GMT

I was taking an audio trip down memory lane yesterday and put on some Barenaked Ladies. Spotify has every album (including all of their live albums they released during a tour a decade ago), but I couldn't help but notice that their album Barenaked Ladies Are Me (2006) is missing.

Here's the odd part - in 2006/2007 BNL released two albums - Barenaked Ladies Are Me and Barenaked Ladies Are Men. They were two halves of a double album. Barenaked Ladies Are Men is there, but Barenaked Ladies Are Me is missing. I can't see any legal reason for tha album to not be there - everything else has been put on Spotify.

So I wonder if the similiarity between the two album names is the reason that one album was added and one was not. Maybe human error - or maybe some sort of feature that stops duplicate albums from being added accidentally.

Either way, it'd be great if we can get Barenaked Ladies Are Me on there since it's the better album of the two.

Re: Missing Barenaked Ladies Album

Greg — Mon, 05 May 2014 12:22:42 GMT

Hey!

I think it's quite likely this has something to do with licensing, but you're quite right, the two albums are similar enough to possibly cause a problem.

I've passed on your post to our content team just to be sure.

Thanks 🙂

Re: Missing Barenaked Ladies Album

Boy_J — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:16:18 GMT

Just discovered the exact same issue. Would be great if this album could be added.

Re: Missing Barenaked Ladies Album

Gavdraper — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:46:19 GMT

Just noticed this too. Barenake Ladies Are Me definately used to be on Spotify and it now seems to have gone. I think maybe spotify had a cleanup and mistoke the 2 albums as being the same?

Re: Missing Barenaked Ladies Album

jakemhs — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 22:48:59 GMT

Just noticed this issue myself. Is it really licensing that's the problem here? Every other BNL album is up there, including its companion album as mentioned previously.

Re: Missing Barenaked Ladies Album

MattSuda — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 01:24:09 GMT

@jakemhs

Not every album or song is available on Spotify.

The availability of music 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.

Re: Missing Barenaked Ladies Album

Bobvim_2000 — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:03:16 GMT

Although "BLAMe" is not on Spotify, the live version of it is available: "All New Revue -- Live at the Glenn Gould Studio." The track order is the same.