Search does not return accurate results

[marm0lade]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iPhone 15 Pro, Dell XPS 15 9520

Operating System

iOS 26, Windows 11 Pro

My Question or Issue

When I search for the artist "stagediver", none of the "artist" results are the artist I am looking for. I have to search by the song name to find the correct artist. Search should return all artists with the name "stagediver". Obviously.

None of these are who I am searching for:

This is who I am searching for:

What am I doing wrong?

[Noise859]

Not sure why, but recently, search results are entirely useless. Simply not returning the most likely option. I have noticed this for many songs. For example, searching “just pretend bad omens”, “just pretend”, or “just pretend bad” does NOT return you the song, titled “Just Pretend” by “Bad Omens”. It will sooner lyrics match the live version of the song then actually return the song. But searching “just pretend b” will return the correct result. This is dumb. Please remedy 

[MateusM]

Hey there @marm0lade!

Thanks for reaching out.

We had a look, and it seems the artist you’re searching for is quite new on Spotify. Search results are influenced by popularity, so newer artist profiles might not always appear right away when searching by name.

If it’s an artist you enjoy, you can still find them by searching for their songs directly, and you can also share their profile with friends — the more followers and plays they get, the easier it will be for their name to show up in search results over time.

Hope this clears things up! Let me know if you have questions.
/Mateus