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The recent removal of Rotana Music Group’s catalog

ebods — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:51:36 GMT

Plan

Free

Country

Iraq

Device

iPad Air 5th Generation

Operating System

iPadOS 18.5

My Question or Issue

Are there no plans by Spotify to bring back Rotana’s catalog to the platform again after the sudden removal of said catalog earlier this month? Spotify, which I started using last year specifically because of the access it gave to the vast Arabic music library that it had alongside the huge non-Arabic library, has become just an empty platform for me as a listener to Arabic music. And to this day, I get recommended albums from Rotana in "Recommended for today" and "Discover picks today", making at times more than half of what is suggested in these sections. There is not even one Arabic music playlist created by Spotify that is not made up of a good amount of music from Rotana's catalog, that with the absence of which, make the playlists un-understandable.

Re: The recent removal of Rotana Music Group’s catalog

Markoosh — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:31:16 GMT

This. Hope they get it sorted.
I have no reason to sub otherwise. $$$

Re: The recent removal of Rotana Music Group’s catalog

Vjk0x — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:41:04 GMT

Please bring back rotana songs (elissa, angam, amr diab, majid almohandis and others).

Re: The recent removal of Rotana Music Group’s catalog

spy3 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:41:46 GMT

Please bring back all the songs alot of people sub for that music

Re: The recent removal of Rotana Music Group’s catalog

0mar32 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:28:47 GMT

This is absolutely a must, I won't subscribe to Spotify otherwise, unfortunately Spotify team doesn't understand the gold mine that comes with having the Rotana Music catalog on their platform!

Re: The recent removal of Rotana Music Group’s catalog

OmarHussein99 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:51:12 GMT

Can we please fix this issue...?

Re: The recent removal of Rotana Music Group’s catalog

mmoustafai — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:34:55 GMT

Please bring that. That producer has songs from the arabic world with more than 501 Million listeners.