Artist shows up on google but not in the client?

[fragenabler]

Title, initially I thought one artist (Stahlhammer) was just missing from Spotify, but today I decided to use Google in search for answers, and as it turns out said artist exists, but for some reason doesn't show up in the client at all.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1rEU29aUvKAdmi2sp4uitF?highlight=spotify:track:1Yt7HXWqjow02MLB88qc8p

I can add their albums to my library, but not a single song can be played. On the mobile client it says I need to get Premium, which I already have.

What gives?

[Sebasty]

Hey @fragenabler 

The artist has currently nothing available on Spotify. The reason why you're able to find this artist page in Google, but not in the app is that Spotify client is set to not show unavailable content in search results.
Google search works differently, it just indexes everything it can index. : )

As of when this artist will have something on Spotify - I don't know. It could be a temporary thing (changing distributors etc) or it might be a more permanent decision by the artist or rightsholders

Hope this helps you 🙂
Have a nice day!