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Duplicate albums - spotify bug

Duplicate albums - spotify bug

Plan

Premium

Country

AUS

Device

All devices - serverside issue

Operating System

All operating systems

My Question or Issue 

Spotify has a bug in it's library where it is creating exact duplicate albums. I stumble upon them sometimes when it plays a recommended song and I swear I've saved it, come to find out I saved the duplicate. 

 

I am not talking about remasters, special editions, or single vs album versions of songs. I am talking about whole albums with EXACT duplicates, same catalog number. I know they're duplicates and it's an issue on the server end because they have unique URLs when using the spotify website in a web browser, despite being exactly the same. I can save the songs twice, or have different songs saved from the same album. I will post some examples I have found with some photos for everyone. 

 

How deep does this go? How can they fix this without removing songs from peoples playlists? Are the artists seeing the revenue from the playcount of these duplicates? This is a serious problem.

 

Pacific Avenue - Flowers

open. spotify. com/album/0sY90YfWxpjWpnNHV6WxH4?si=ATU9uZPZSSGkLKq1WZIKGg

Duplicate

open. spotify. com/album/1jO18Vw412aDlvPgKn91eS?si=04UTdtLsQZ2dvg_wgGBscg

 

Dope Lemon - Hounds Tooth

open. spotify. com/album/1C8zcgu2vkaHxvWpBxXPah?si=YB2pZngNRKievGKuWB4TVw

Duplicate

open. spotify. com/album/2QQdxn4W5WaiY4SD61BJ6L?si=aX8C7xlAQNWs-rDBE17TpA

 

The Dip - The Dip Delivers

open. spotify. com/album/5lHdKLwA4NsBMUkX9Wenbm?si=MTrar66KTMW7REx-36iIsQ

Duplicate

open. spotify. com/album/5NaNDBt0tTh3Y8GiS3zfoI?si=tyCNw6f8QiGvjJV6hI8sIg

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Hi @BourbonVanilla!

 

Thanks for coming to the Community.

I'd recommend checking out this Support article for more info on how to report content errors such as duplicate albums.

Let me know if there's anything else I can help with and have a nice day 🙂

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