topic Re: API returns wrong genres when fetching multiple artists in Spotify for Developers

API returns wrong genres when fetching multiple artists

soheilpro — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:41:22 GMT

When requesting multiple artists in a single API call, the API returns wrong genres. But when requesting the same artists one by one, it returns the correct genres.

Please see the attached screenshot showing the response for artist Metallica (2ye2Wgw4gimLv2eAKyk1NB), where the genres are clearly incorrect.

Re: API returns wrong genres when fetching multiple artists

ribezaz — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:33:37 GMT

Hi @soheilpro ! Welcome to the Spotify Community—it's great to have you here 🙂

Thanks for your report! The issue has already been passed on to the responsible team and is being investigated 🙂

Keep me posted.

Cheers,
ribezaz

Re: API returns wrong genres when fetching multiple artists

Yordan — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:19:10 GMT

Hey folks,

We believe this should be fixed now, so the genres should appear correctly.

Thanks again for the report @soheilpro 💚

Re: API returns wrong genres when fetching multiple artists

soheilpro — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:49:42 GMT

I can confirm that it's working as intended now. Thanks for the quick fix.