Removed features: Popular Playlists with Artist in them and Where Is This Artist Popular?

[ben-cohen]

This annoys me to no end, since I used this all the time.

Before you could click an artists name, then their "about" and you'd see where they had the most listeners and in what popular playlists they'd be found.

And now those are gone. Why?

[Hubo]

Hey @ben-cohen! Welcome to the Spotify Community!

Spotify is simplifying the artist profile in advance of some bigger changes intended to give artists more control over their profile on Spotify. Let me know if there's anything else! 🙂

Take care and stay tuned!

[ben-cohen]

Okay, so why remove it altogether? Why not move it elsewhere? Why remove features when they're useful?

So often things are removed without any sort of notification or even a public changelog -- this is so frustrating as a loyal user!

[zidders]

Shouldn't user features matter more since without users you wouldn't even have a service? I'm all for giving artists more control but that shouldn't come at your users expense. You've removed feature after feature without replacing them. There's little incentive for paying customers to stay and even less for people like me to subscribe. Why would I when all that's going to happen is my experience be made worse? 

[coffeebucket]

Really disappointing to see this feature disappear.  Even more disappointing to have it vanish through an (unstoppable) automatic update with no commuication as to what's changed.

Providing artists greater control over their control over their profile (presumably just the "About" tab) is great, but not at the expense of removing useful functionality.  Why not reinstate the Popular Playlists with Artist feature elsewhere on the Artist view; perhaps in a tab if its own.

[coffeebucket]

Cross referencing other threads discussing this topic for visibility

• Discovered on info disappeared
• Playlist gone on infomartion Section of the Artist
• Artists' About Section
• What happened to the Playlist Info tab on the Desktop Client
• What happened to the "Found on Playlist" section of the Artist->About page?
• Did you guys just remove listeners geography from "About" page?

[Sphinxmorpher]

I really miss this feature. I found so many interesting independent playlists this way...

Why would you remove it before you have an alternative ready?

Tin foil hat on: Could this be a move to hinder competition with official playlists..tsk tsk.

[tplhenderson]

Hey guys, on my Mac I can still see this data, but on my PC Desktop it is not visable. Anyway to get it displayed on both?  

[user-removed]

Is there a way to download an OLDER version of Spotify to get these features back?

[Hubo]

Hey folks!

Great news! These features should be available again in the About tab of your favourite artists! Make sure you're on the latest Spotify version available and check it out!

Let me know if you've got any questions! 🙂

Have a lovely day!

[MattHarra]

Bring this feature back! I used it all the time.