topic Impossible to report a song in Other (Podcasts, Partners, etc.)

Impossible to report a song

Cyyan — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:29:39 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

France

Device

Dell Inspiron 15-7559

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

Hello !

I wanted to report a song because of its racist and inappropriate lyrics but I did not succeed to do so !

First, it's seems that I don't have the "Report" icon ("Signaler" in French) that should appear when clicking on the three dots next to a song or playlist :

In fact, it only appears when clicking on the artist account's three dots :

Clicking on it works fine until I have to chose the reason why I'm reporting the artist : I only have four options (Artist bio text, "Artist's pick" text, Artist profile image and Artist banner image) and none of them is related to my case.

Finally, I tried to modify the artist's URI link with the desired song's one, hopping that this will report the song correctly. Unfortunately, I now only have one possible irrelevant choice this time : "Now playing screen" visual loop :

I therefore couldn't report my song at all and don't know what to do. The fact that the song has been uploaded on Spotify three years ago and still can be found at this moment despite its very inappropriate content lets me think that there is a real issue here.

Hopefully, this will be fixed soon !

Re: Impossible to report a song

Eni — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:03:54 GMT

Hey @romanbredehoft,

Welcome to the Community and thanks for reaching out abut this.

We tried this on our end and it worked fine.

In this case, could you check if you have followed these specific steps to report the content?

Keep in mind that you can do it only from the playlist title or the artist name.

If you have followed those steps and you still can't see more options, would you mind sending us a screen recording with the steps you're following so we can take a closer look?

We'll be on the lookout.

Re: Impossible to report a song

Cyyan — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:33:32 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for your reply !

After reading again the right steps to follow, I think I might have misinterpreted the fact that "reporting texts" means that only a bio or description text can be reported but not the track's lyrics.

Nevertheless, does this mean that it is impossible to report a song ?

I find this very unfortunate since the one I found clearly includes some racist content and probably should be reviewed by your team.

Have a nice day !

Re: Impossible to report a song

Mihail — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:06:17 GMT

Hey @Cyyan,

Thanks for getting back to us.

You can use the report text option to file your report. Our team take over and happily make a thorough investigation afterwards.

Hope you find this useful. Keep us posted if you have any questions.

Re: Impossible to report a song

oakscratch — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:09:27 GMT

That’s not a solution. You also have to verify your email address, despite being signed in to your account and complete a lengthy captcha thing to prove you’re not a bot. It looks like Spotify can’t be bothered with dealing with the reports and are putting up obstacles so people get frustrated and are dissuaded from reporting. Lazy, pathetic Spotify. I’ll be making sure to delete my account and stop paying these scum, they don’t even pay the artists properly.

Request to delete a song from a band with inappropriate song lyrics

Cloé — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:43:49 GMT

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

A band named ‘헐어’ has songs that are misogynistic (demeaning female genitals), pedophile, and curse certain underdogs. Doesn't Spotify censor song lyrics? Better delete them quickly before greater responsibility is required

The song also uses the word rape directly to sympathize with the crime of rape and even to curse a pregnant woman and a child in her womb. Please delete it quickly. When I first heard the lyrics of the song, I was shocked and caused trauma

Re: Request to delete a song from a band with inappropriate song lyrics

mrkqqq — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:57:05 GMT

i think this is your problem

Re: Impossible to report a song

JoshChevs — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:25:19 GMT

I wanted to report fraudulent artist on spotify but i wasn't able too!? Too complicated!? Sadek yacine ( Nova music ) has copyright infringement on the Bands ( Inpetigo and Baphomet ) Sadek yacine and Nova Music are con artist, fake name and company. It A.I generated music as well?

Re: Impossible to report a song

Kozmeowski — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:13:25 GMT

I've been trying to figure this out for a while now because I see so many fake artists using real bands' names and credits. I think I may have figured part of it out. If you use the ellipses (3 dots) or right click (have to be on desktop app) on the artist name and select "Report", it will open a browser tab to submit a report. Go back into the app and right click the song in question, click "share", and get the url link to it copied. Then go back to the open tab for submitting the issue and replace the link that showed up with the song link. It then changes the options of issues to choose from, including track audio. This is the closest I've come to being able to report songs. Hopefully Spotify makes this easier some day.