Duplicated albums

[151kamii]

I've encountered that there are dublicate albums. Funny thing, when I go to the artist's profile, only one album appears. But both albums have different ID, and they appear when I click on the certain album.

Here are examples:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5NlwMhwLycO4kyzphjhM3e?si=r_KYf-fPQTmM8nWh7155ew

https://open.spotify.com/album/4eKdn0skJCidO2wqIJyCgB?si=_VyBd57WQ_e-CKFeKnSrMg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3uhihQCm9aSvdJmDXcVrvi?si=OISmygZSR-yK80qIuCciUg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3qpbuQ6XTxYfGx4fQZpZcA?si=mhPPlsETQ6CNhd_Zetf0rw

And so on... It happens in almost every release of this artist. Can someone explain it to me? I hope my streaming counts if I am using the version that does not appear on artist's website anymore.

[Jemi]

Hey @151kamii, help's here. 

This can happen if an album is removed and re-added from the artist's catalogue, which leaves more than one versions of the album. The last one is the one shown in the artist's page. There are several reasons this can happen, including licensing. 

We hope that explains things 🙂