Song removed from Spotify

[BlazinHusky]

A bunch of songs that I had on my playlist were recently removed.  Spotify says it's a licensing thing with the band.  So I talked to the band and they said it's not something on their end. Specifically, "unfortunately it's not our decision". So which is it?  Why can't the songs be re-added?

[Soundofus]

Hello @BlazinHusky

It can be also a decision of the label, if the band has one.

Please, can you give a bit more details like : the country you are in, the name of the band, the title of albums where the songs removed are from.

With more details, I can make some searches to see if it's totally removed from Spotify or partially removed only in some countries.

[BlazinHusky]

It's not like it was one or two songs or one or two albums that are gone.  It's quite a bit of the music.  And at this point, why bother paying $10 or even use this product when this much music just gets removed.

United States

Band - Album

Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront

Silverstein - A Shipwreck In The Sand

Emmure - Goodbye to the Gallows

Hawthorne Heights - The Silence In Black and White

Hawthorne Heights - If Only You Were Lonely

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends

Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere In-Between

Bury Your Dead - Beauty And the Breakdown

Bury Your Dead - Cover Your Tracks

A Day To Remember - For Those Who Have Heart

A Day To Remember -  Old Record

A Day To Remember - Homesick (A few songs are missing)

A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You

Jamie's Elsewhere - They Said A Storm Was Coming (Most songs are missing)

[Soundofus]

@BlazinHusky

After some researches :

Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront ===> Available worldwide except US

Silverstein - A Shipwreck In The Sand ===> Available worldwide except US

Emmure - Goodbye to the Gallows ===> Available worldwide except US

Hawthorne Heights - The Silence In Black and White ===> Available worldwide (US & CA = 11 tracks, Rest of world = 18 tracks)

Hawthorne Heights - If Only You Were Lonely ===> Available worldwide except US

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends ===> Available worldwide except US

Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere In-Between ===> Available worldwide except US

Bury Your Dead - Beauty And the Breakdown ===> Available worldwide except US

Bury Your Dead - Cover Your Tracks ===> Available worldwide except US

A Day To Remember - For Those Who Have Heart ===> Available worldwide except US

A Day To Remember -  Old Record ===> Available worldwide except US

A Day To Remember - Homesick (A few songs are missing) ===> Available worldwide except US (2 versions : 12 or 23 tracks)

A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You ===> Available worldwide except US

Jamie's Elsewhere - They Said A Storm Was Coming (Most songs are missing) ===> Available worldwide except US

It seems that the problem comes in US from a label named "Another Victory" or "Victory Records" based in Chicago. It's possible there is a licensing problem with them, only for your country.

Spotify wants all the music in the world available to stream. Unfortunately, sometimes, due to licensing problems or by decision of the artist or label or rightholders, some albums are not available at all or partially available in some countries.

Spotify works hard daily to try to convince artists/labels to have their music available to stream.

The best that users can do to help is to contact the label and ask why the albums are not available on Spotify.

[12176150386]

i have the same issue

Canada

any Tool album

les anticipateurs-sapoud  

I tried with you search engine for aviability but didn't find anything

[alphab3tkill3r]

is there any way I can get the album back somehow? I had an A Day to Remember playlist and it didn't take me very long to realize that they only have 2 albums on spotify when they used to have at least 5 or 6.

[Soundofus]

@alphab3tkill3r

Spotify and Victory Records are working to solve the problem. As soon as it's done, the albums will surely be quickly back.

[alphab3tkill3r]

well that's good to know, I remember they got into a lawsuit with Victory Records if I remember correctly so maybe that might have something to do with it as well, I'm not sure

[martinscobie]

I just noticed that a few songs from Air's album Twentyyears was removed. They hadn't been previously though. **bleep** it . It's just so silly.

[MattSuda]

The songs/albums will still be shown in your playlists so you can keep track of them. Make sure to go in settings and check for the setting that shows unavailable songs.