"Top Hits of Year" lists missing

[IMerrithew]

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Premium

Country

Canada 

My Question or Issue

Where have many of the Spotify generated "Top Hits of Year" playlists gone? In the 1980s set for example, 1984, 1985, and 1987 (three of my favourites) have all disappeared. A number of the "Best of Rock Year" have also vanished. In fact in the 80s the first such "Best of Rock" list is now 1986! 

1977, 1978, 1979's yearly lists have also disappeared along with most of the corresponding "Best of Rock" lists of the 1970s.

Continues into the 90s and 00s too, with the 1995, 1998, and 1999 "Top Hits" not appearing, nor a single "Top Hits" list in the 2000s after 2004.

I could understand if specific songs were no longer available that they would disappear, but why would the entire lists be gone? They make the decades search pages look like they have glaring holes in them. 

[AlejaR]

Hey @IMerrithew,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

We really appreciate the time you took to let us know about this. The availability of our playlists might change over time, so it's possible you notice some of them are not available at the moment.

Unfortunately, we don't have info to share about their availability at the moment. We understand where you're coming from and why this is important for you. We'll pass this important feedback to the right team, but we can't promise they'll come back.

Hope this clears things up. If you have any questions or need a hand with anything else, we're always a post away.

[Androidnr42]

I've noticed the same thing and I would also like to request the return of these playlists! Bring them back!

[IMerrithew]

I have to say I'm quite disappointed with the moderator response here. It reads as being so thoroughly washed by corporate lawyers that it ends up saying nothing at all of any substance. The only useful bit of information is about passing the report along to others. 

My initial take is that this must represent some kind of bug with whatever script(s) and or database queries that would generate these lists. I could sort of understand if Spotify can't acknowledge such a thing, even if I can't really figure out the harm it would do (would "we've been working on on our backend systems a lot recently and unfortunately we have observed issues with some of our playlists as a result. We're working on them but we don't have a firm estimate on when the backend work will be done" really be that hard to say?). 

But "these playlists may not come back"? Really? Could that possibly be any more of a boiler plate non committal auto generated response? This weird look where some years and genres have lists and some don't for no apparent reason just looks plain sloppy and unbefitting of a company with the kind of resources & massive user base that Spotify has. 

[Esvarabatico]

This is such an empty response to the topic, it's just answering for the sake of answering. I'm having the same issue, I also think it's probably a bug. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.

[IMerrithew]

It's getting worse, not better. Screenshot is now the entirety of "music through the 80s". Only four years listed at all; all of the "Best of Rock" year playlists gone; never mind anything else. Every other decade page is looking similarly starved. The 90s page is down to 1991 to 1994 only with two "Best of Rock" lists still surviving. The 70s page also has just four years left and a single "Best of Rock".

If you're going to delete the "Decades" search pages, just do it already. Don't leave them stranded in this ridiculous state.

[90sRockDude]

This sucks! These best of rock 90's playlist were so good and most of my listening time on Spotify. So dumb to remove and then cop out on a solid answer to "we will pass it along"

[31j3mlfrgxg5rby6yfkg]

try searching (top hits de "Year") example: Top Hits de 2001

*I've found out last month that they've renamed the playlists

[cuneax]

Suddenly playlists like "Top Hits of 1998" is gone, and replaced with inferior playlists by private users. What gives, Spotify?

[LordeMadeMale]

Only thing is, those playlists are market specific and the songs they contain are different from the original Top Hits playlists but they still come in handy once in a while.

[dwcjwerfner]

Most of my Spotify made public playlists for every year from the decades are no longer available. Tech support were like, oh. those are no longer available. They are Spotify created lists??

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Desktop and Android

Operating System

Where have they gone?