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[Other] Exact release date across all platforms

Spotify has exact release date information for albums - it can be viewed in the mobile app (at least under iOS, v8.5.41).

 

Using the official desktop app, however (macOS, v1.1.24.91.g4ca6d5eb) you only get the year.

 

Why the disparity? I would have thought that, if anything, the desktop app would contain more granular information, while the mobile app would contain more of a summary.

 

Year is not very granular at all - artists can do a lot in a year, and fans sometimes like to know at least the month they released something, if not also the day.

 

Thank you for reading

Updated on 2021-07-07

Hey folks,

 

Thanks for coming to the Spotify Idea Exchange and voting to make this happen.

 

We're happy to announce that this feature is now available. All you need to do is hover over the song's release year: this will show you the full song's release date 🙂

 

Once again, thanks for helping us make Spotify better, by participating here on the Community!

Top Answer
MattSuda
Spotify Star

If you hover over the release date in the new 2021 desktop app update or the web player for several seconds, the full release date will show in a popup tooltip. They should just show the full release date by default. The tooltip is slow and small.

 

full release date hover tooltip.png

Comments
jimverneuil

Please, please, please bring back the precise release date on desktop application !

Making monthly playlists is becoming impossible without the exact date of release

Artists also put out several project the same year, if not the same month and it becomes impossible to sort everything  out.

Thanks

0081

I review music, and find it really helpfull to see when an album was released, or at least put on the platform. So seeing that completely removed from the desktop is disorienting and cofusing. The new Layout also doesn't make new releases stand out enough.

Aistro

Agreed - no idea why they removed this - was a cool bit that I can't think of a reason why they removed..

chrisbr

This drives me insane. Why would they remove fundamental info like this that would literally take up 20 characters.                   

test328

Before the new design we could see the day the newest song came out from the artist, now we can only see the year when it came out. It would be nice to bring back the feature to show at what day & month the newest song came out from the artist.

MattSuda

If you hover over the release date in the new 2021 desktop app update or the web player for several seconds, the full release date will show in a popup tooltip. They should just show the full release date by default. The tooltip is slow and small.

 

full release date hover tooltip.png

MattSuda

If you hover over the release date in the new 2021 desktop app update or the web player for several seconds, the full release date will show in a popup tooltip. They should just show the full release date by default. The tooltip is slow and small.

 

full release date hover tooltip.png

MattSuda

If you hover over the release date in the new 2021 desktop app update or the web player for several seconds, the full release date will show in a popup tooltip. They should just show the full release date by default. The tooltip is slow and small.

 

full release date hover tooltip.png

Mario
Status changed to: Implemented

Updated on 2021-07-07

Hey folks,

 

Thanks for coming to the Spotify Idea Exchange and voting to make this happen.

 

We're happy to announce that this feature is now available. All you need to do is hover over the song's release year: this will show you the full song's release date 🙂

 

Once again, thanks for helping us make Spotify better, by participating here on the Community!

MattSuda

It would be nice to just display the full release date by default on the release pages. It takes too long to have to hover over every time.