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Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

fdshfg — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:45:41 GMT

I was listening to an artist and one of their songs was automatically skipped. I checked the song's album, and every song under the album seemed to be under the artist name "cleaned". Adding any song from the album to the queue displays the correct artist name, but only this album (広い世界とせまい世界) seems to be affected. Clicking on the "cleaned" artist name results in a "not found" error, and searching "cleaned" in my liked songs displays no results. This hasn't happened before, and I can't find any similar experiences online, so I'm very confused.

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

Dessi — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:16:29 GMT

Hi @fdshfg,

Thanks for reaching out and reporting this!

We've passed this on to the respective team so they can have a closer look. We're unable to provide an ETA for a fix at this time, but rest assured this will remain on our internal teams' radar.

The Community is always here if something else comes up.

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

kallioimartelu — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:47:44 GMT

I have same issue on the same album. Also other Japanese albums are the same

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

Toshiki — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:27:41 GMT

I just noticed that the artist in this album (Onomatomani[a]kus by Marmalade butcher) is replaced by "cleaned".

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

Dgc0010 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:44:07 GMT

I have a similar problem with a fox capture plan album. This is Japanese also……

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

Aletheides — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:06:27 GMT

Same issue with multiple Japanese albums. I can find the albums and songs as normal on the artist page but they don't appear on any of my playlists. Additionally, playing a "cleaned" song isn't recorded by any scrobbling services such as last.fm

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

Toshiki — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:31:27 GMT

This also happens for the album Heart of Tokage and Run&Gun by the band Gecko&Tokage Parade. Please fix this issue ASAP.

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

cassio33 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:46:35 GMT

is there an update to this? i have found a dozen Japanese bands in my playlists that are affected. this also breaks all of my playlists, because the songs won't play anymore.

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

Toshiki — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:14:56 GMT

I just had a strange observation. There are two albums. They are the same but they have different url and are accessed from different places. One has the correct artist name, the other has the "cleaned" issue. The album is 「showtime」 by POLYPLUS.

Album with "cleaned":
https://open.spotify.com/album/6M9cg8UWpRFgbhN7bXKbs3

Album with correct artist name:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0gnZUfRLeoOPTRNYR4zz5c

The same thing happens for the album 「Moonlit」 by Martha Kato.

Album with "cleaned":

https://open.spotify.com/album/7bbgoL1AjCJupyQZQPzlSy

Album with artist name:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7ic6aCaxRAh3sZqHL6wQeD

In the above two cases, the album with artist name is accessed through the artist page, while the album with "cleaned" is accessed through my library. Not all albums are like this, though, this album, "the Day Music save Us" by Alter Ego seems to only have one version (with "cleaned"):
https://open.spotify.com/album/1BZ4ZVQRDwHfJAiWKFz6rl

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

swiftymcgee — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:45:11 GMT

Also their album Borderline, which is where I first saw my weird scrobble.

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

swiftymcgee — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:45:50 GMT

Bumping for attention.

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

KaorunIchijou — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:56:22 GMT

same for July 5th by Finger Runs which is also Japanese, Spotify is cooking fr 😭😭😭

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

johnhernandz18 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:58:48 GMT

I have the same problem with Veiled In Scarlet and Omelas (both Japanese Metal bands). Like I guess this only affects Japanese bands then………

Re: Artist name replaced with "cleaned"

zNdev — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:44:53 GMT

I did some research and all of the albums which have the artist name "cleaned" has been distributed via a japanese company called "diskunion" so it's probably their way of taking down and reuploading the albums.