Nujabes removed from Spotify?

[Seaba]

What happened to Nujabes I've been listening to a lot of his stuff recently and now its all gone from spotify.  He is an amazing artist and his work deserves to be heard!

[MasterHyjinx]

I decided to give Nujabes another play tonight. I was confused and then horrified to see that Spiritual State and Modal State were gone... I was programming to that music last night. Spotify, what happened here? I need my Nujabes fix.

[MasterHyjinx]

Everything that he did with Fat jon is gone too.  Right now I'm debating pulling out a CD Drive to play these discs, fix the power supply on my media server or just youtube it.... guess what wins tonight?

[Firdos]

Google Play Music has both of the albums that Spotify just removed. I had a free month of google play music recently and it didn't look bad. I think losing Nujabes might be the tipping point for me. Gunna keep looking first. Maybe send some angry emails?

[JohnZephier]

Who would I send these emails to? I'd very much like to have him back on spotify, he was important to a bunch of my playlists.

[Grace]

Hey guys,

Unfortunately when music is removed it's usually due to a licensing issue. The best people to contact are the record label(s) and artists and kindly ask them to reconsider re-appearing on Spotify!

[Jordi]

As Grace mentioned, this is done by the label companies.

You can read more about it at the Music FAQ (note 5)