topic Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music in Content Questions

GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

actionuflip — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 04:46:45 GMT

Dear Spotify,

I have been listening to Spotify for a while now and recently made the switch to Premium Status! I am able to enjoy a greater range and quality of music now on the go. However, I started to download music that I liked and noticed that something was off when selecting my music. The Indian Collection has DRASTICALLY been cut. I have a playlist by the name of Gaana, and it feels as if half of the entire playlist is missing. Here are the albums that I have noticed:

Khiladi 786
Baar Baar Dekho
Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gayaa
Tees Maar Khan
Shaandar
A Flying Jatt
Rustom
Toota Jo Khabi Taara
Singh v/s Kaur
Arijit Singh - The Epic Collection
Udta Punjab
Sultan
Tanu Weds Manu
2 States
ABCD 2
Chennai Express
Delhi 6
Ek Villain
Fitoor
Fukrey
Gunday
Hate Story 3
Ishqzaade
Jab Tak Hai Jann
Fan
Jai Ho
Khoobsurat
Khuda Hai Tere Andar
Lootera
Mashups
Mitti Di Kushboo
Nautanki Sala
Parineeta
Phantom
Piku
PK
Ragini MMS 2
Swades
Tetua
Yaariyan
Zindigi Na Milegi Dobara

Forty-one albums are missing, thats a lot of music that I have great passion for that I can not listen to whenever I would like. My belief in Spotify's commitment to Indian Music was a large part of why I have given into Premium instead of continuing as I had been for a few years now. Please remedy this soon or else you will have lost my money.

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

MattSuda — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:10:51 GMT

Hello @actionuflip

Sorry for the late reply.

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

The availability of music on Spotify is up to the artist and their music label.

Spotify wants all the world's music, and they're working hard on making this happen for you. However sometimes agreements can't be reached with the artist or label or a change may happen in music ownership. Sometimes the music 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.

The songs/albums will still be shown in your playlists so you can keep track of them. Make sure to go in settings and check for the setting that shows unavailable songs.

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

akshat01 — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:59:58 GMT

Spotify is failing to strike reasonable deals with these labels. Someone is being greedy here, either Spotify or the labels. Time to move to competitors where these labels are going if the price is same.

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

user-removed — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:42:10 GMT

I share the original posters sentiments. Most if not all of my musical tastes are in Hindi, Punjabi, Asian music as a whole. I like Spotify but won't be subscribing if it doesn't fulfil my music tastes.

Maybe the Indian music industry doesn't want their music on Spotify, maybe they only want it on Gaana or some other platform. Maybe it is Spotify being greedy - who knows. It's just a real shame that billions of people around the world can't appreciate all the music they like under one platform they like.

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

suryrus — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:54:19 GMT

I too feel the Bollywood music is vastly left out in Spotify. Apple music, in contrast, managed to keep a fair deal of content in this regard. I will wait for the day when Spotify will be enriched with a good number of labels.

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

hindi_gaana — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:15:03 GMT

https://open.spotify.com/user/Hindi_Gaana

You can find some awesome hindi music here!

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

vd_sqb3-gfuxj — Thu, 24 May 2018 16:43:32 GMT

Guys what streaming service

would you recommend for Bollywood music? Please help! I love Spotify GUI, but looks like I will have to move 😞

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

vaq6-3fz_f4g — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 23:23:40 GMT

Either Saavn or Gaana.

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

ankitshah009 — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:33:23 GMT

Created a playlist to address Bollywood music songs.

https://open.spotify.com/user/22lqbkn4kznevw7iqhjnrf2mq/playlist/2U5naKBJ5DN3oOPbuRiTem?si=LF_VZIoHTgKs3vLRungIZA

Re: GIANT Loss of Bollywood/Indian Music

mirchi — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:22:12 GMT

You must wait for a while.

Spotify is working on it.