Three Days Grace

[notthatsane]

I'm currently wondering why every album by Three Days Grace is on Spotify except the 'Life Starts Now' record. How can that be???

[user-removed]

@notthatsane

Hello:

I did a quick look up for that release, and it seems there are two versions available for the following listening regions:

CA US

spotify:album:0vv1zKShlm7WuawEup5Mf4

AT CH DE LI

spotify:album:0BKCGlw6FuHuqftCPee7yN

These regions currently do not have access to that release from Three Days Grace:

AD AR AU BE BO BR BG CL CO CR CY CZ DK DO EC SV EE FI FR GR GT HN HK HU IS IE IT LV LT LU MY MT MX MC NL NZ NI NO PA PY PE PH PL PT RO ES SG SK SI SE TW TR GB UY

Normally if the content was available and now has become unavailable, the content eventually comes back due to a licensing change, or a meta data update, or something else.

Spotify wants all the world's music, and they're working hard on making this happen for you. However sometimes agreements can’t be reached with the artist or label or a change may happen in music ownership.

Spotify adds thousands of albums and artists are added every day. If you can’t find an artist you’re looking for, they may appear (or reappear) soon. In the meantime, feel free to contact the artist or their label to ask when they plan to be on Spotify.

[notthatsane]

Aw that really sucks. Apparently I live in a country where that exact record is not available 😞
Can you tell if it'll be available in DK anytime??

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@notthatsane

Sorry, I have no idea, most content when it is added I come across it like everyone else does for my region on the Spotify service. But if it is a metadata issue or licensing update, keep an eye out on the artist page. Content that disappears has been known to just show up, sometimes soon, sometimes weeks and even months later. All content added to the service is up to the artists and labels.

The recorded content from that release was on the Jive/Zomba label if that helps any, but the artists on Jive Records after a reorganization split on going different label directions with some artists going with Epic Records, and some artists went with RCA Music Group, and more than likely their content moved with them with whichever labels the artists went with.

If you care to dig into it all and try to figure out where the content ownership now lies might check out these wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jive_Records

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomba_Group_of_Companies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Records

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Music_Group

The release I have access to from a U.S. account says RCA/Jive Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment. So right there you have three music labels all lumped together into one big corporation now. And it gets tougher trying to figure out when content in different regions will be available, due to whatever deals can be arraigned with different markets where the content is going to either be sold or access to for streaming in. 

Bono from U2 has a fair point that the transparency of labels needs to be way more open than it currently is, creates a whole lot of confusion for consumers when trying to access or buy music.