Now 93 - missing songs

[LazyArchitect]

Now That's What I Call Music 93 has just been made available on Spotify but there are several songs missing (grayed out):-

Take Me Home - Radio Edit  - Jess Glynne

Army  -  Ellie Goulding

Adventure of a Lifetime  -  Coldplay

Girls Like (Edit)  - Tinie Tempah, Zara Larsson

The Sound  -  1975

Some of these tracks (e.g. Girls Like) are available as Explicit versions on Spotify but of course the ones on Now will be the edited versions.

I've noticed a bit of a trend here ... Spotify often seems to have the "potty mouth" version of songs but less often the "Radio Edit" or "Clean" versions

Can someone explain to me why this is?

[Soundofus]

Hello @LazyArchitect and welcome to the community,

Availability of music on Spotify is up to the artists (or representatives) and / or their labels. Music missing can be a decision of one of them.

Music missing can also be related to a licensing problem. Licensing rules are not the same from a country to another. That can lead to have albums available in some countries and not in some others. Usually when a licensing problem is solved the music can be added or come back if it has been removed.

Spotify wants all the music in the world to stream and works hard daily to try to convince artists and labels to let all their catalog in streaming.

Spotify adds the music as it's received from labels. If a label adds an album with missing songs the reason why is to search by the label side.