topic Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order in Your Library

Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

penlab — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:44:20 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Multiple devices

Operating System

Windows 11, Android 14

My Question or Issue

Up until yesterday, when I go to an artist page and choose to see all releases, they would show in chronological order, which is perfect because I'm trying to make artist specific playlists in that same order, cutting out remixes and live material as I go.

Today I find on all of my devices that going to an artist page and choosing to see all releases now separates them by albums and singles, even though I have very specifically chosen to see all releases because I do not want them to be separated.

I am livid. I hope this is in error and will be corrected and not a permanent change done without any regard for the people using this app. I am one stone's throw away from just going to another service.

why are the artist discography's not in chronological order anymore?

0l6lbo5borzq2il — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:14:02 GMT

All day even up until some time yesterday around the early afternoon, on my windows downloaded Spotify app on my computer, the artist discography was in perfect chronological order for each and every artist. It was so helpful... And now it is TOTALLY messed up... they range going from like 2024, 2016, 2011, 2023, 2019, etc etc. And that is incredibly frustrating.. can this be fixed somehow PLEASE?

Re: why are the artist discography's not in chronological order anymore?

BUYDJMAXRESPECT — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:57:09 GMT

To me it seems like it now shows all albums first, followed by all singles, instead of just all releases in chronological order. This entirely defeats the purpose of having the option to only show either all albums or all singles.

Hoping this was not intended and will be reverted to how it was before.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

djlonboy — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:56:45 GMT

This is a really frustrating change, and just makes the user experience worse. The whole point of seeing "ALL" is that you want to see an artists back catalogue in chronological order. Now singles are buried right at the bottom and it's impossible to just listen through in chronological order

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

CompactRhythm — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:06:31 GMT

It seems what they did was separate the albums and singles/EPs from each other without any clear line like there at least is on mobile. What makes this irritating is that if I wanted to separate them, the option was already there to view only singles or albums but now they're all together and in the wrong order.

You can see in my screenshot the order is completely wrong for these 3 aespa releases if you look at the years (2023, 2022, 2024??). I should not be seeing the "2nd Mini Album" before the 5th when it apparently goes in chronological order (newest to oldest).

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

MattSuda — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:25:12 GMT

I'm having the same problem in the desktop app.

Very disappointing change, please bring it back so we can see all releases by release date again.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

MattSuda — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:34:45 GMT

Hey folks,

This is now fixed in the desktop app and web player. Artist discography will now show in chronological order again.

After reporting this and having it looked into, it was determined that this is not an expected change and a fix was made.

Thanks for coming to the Community to post your feedback.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

MattSuda — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:34:29 GMT

@penlab @CompactRhythm @djlonboy @BUYDJMAXRESPECT @0l6lbo5borzq2il

This is now fixed in the desktop app and web player. Artist discography will now show in chronological order again.

After reporting this and having it looked into, it was determined that this is not an expected change and a fix was made.

Thanks for coming to the Community to post your feedback.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

Georg9741 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 23:00:01 GMT

What is with Android? It's completely random ordered on my end right now, could this be fixed?

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

Shahius — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:43:25 GMT

I'm still seeing the wrong dates all over the place, and I can't seem to get them in order. It's crazy how they show old album release dates like 1972 as 2011 and stuff. I read somewhere that it could be a remaster, but there's no indication of that in the album name.Usually, I like to start with a new band and their early releases, but now it's a total mess. There's just no way to see the chronology.

It's a terrible change.I'm going to try Amazon Music now.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

ALIckel — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:41:50 GMT

This problem just started today for me on the Android app. Albums in completely random order.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

djlonboy — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:27:42 GMT

Yep seeing the same on Android - looks like Latest Release, then Albums, then Singles & EPs. Why?? Especially since there are already buttons at the top to select either Albums or Singles & EPs. Desktop is working normally.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

amanderr — Wed, 07 May 2025 00:59:16 GMT

Hi, this is bugged again on Android mobile. My Spotify android mobile app isn't displaying discography albums in chronological order anymore. This screenshot is from the artist ZHU.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

Dessi — Thu, 08 May 2025 08:21:32 GMT

Hi folks,

Thanks for reaching out and flagging this!

@amanderr, thanks for the screenshot! We've gone ahead and reported this to our tech folks for further investigation and will let you know as soon as we hear back from them and have any info to share.

Take care.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

Eni — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:29:56 GMT

Hey folks,

Thanks for all the info you've sent so far.

Just to confirm, are you still experiencing this? If so, make sure to that you're running the latest version of the app.

We'll be waiting for your replies.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

riiiik — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:05:00 GMT

Hi, Today when I try to open an open artists discography it no longer shows up , only albums...and when I choose show all, they are shown non chronically?

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

MihailY — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:08:25 GMT

Hey @riiiik,

Thanks for reaching out.

I've checked on my end on both mobile and desktop and albums and singles show together in chronological order on the discography page. To investigate this further, can you let us know/send us the following:

The model, OS version and Spotify version of the affected devices.
The troubleshooting steps you've tried so far.
A few screenshots showing the issue.
Does this happen with specific artists? If yes, which ones?

Keep us posted.

Re: Artist Discographies No Longer In Chronological Order

dsilk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:00:27 GMT

Agreed, I'm suddenly seeing it again. Even if they just put a "sort by date" choice it would do as a workaround.