Missing artists in my 'Following' tab

[sleepwalkr007]

My issue is with some artists being excluded from the list of artists that I am following. I pay for a premium account and all the artists that I follow I like songs or albums by them as well. This problem is the same when I listen from my android phone or from my laptop. I have read through similar posts and have not found a solution or explanation for this bug. Can anyone help me out? 

[Luan]

Hey, @sleepwalkr007 
Welcome to the Spotify Community, and thanks for reaching out to us!

Have you already noticed any other strange activity in your account? Are you sure no one else has access to your account?

You said you're experiencing the same issue on your mobile and PC, right? Could you, please, share with me the other posts you mentioned where people reported the same?

Any other relevant information you may have would be helpful! Keep me posted! 🔍

[sleepwalkr007]

Luan, thanks for your interest in resolving this issue for me. I can not share with you all the posts I've read from people who are experiencing the same problem, but you could search and see what comes up. Nobody has access to my account besides me. I follow over 1,500 artists so that could play into it. Once my liked songs list grew to over 3,000 songs, I noticed that Spotify started unlocking many songs from my list. At one point it gave me a message saying my liked songs list was full and wouldn't let me like any more. After the next update I was able to like songs again ( I have over 14,000 liked songs now). I just find it odd that I can go to an artists page, see that I am following them, but when I go to my following list, many are not invluded and I would just like to know why. Thank you for your time. 

[Luan · Accepted solution]

Hi again, @sleepwalkr007 

I collected some information here in the community and it seems there is no limit to the number of Liked Songs, fortunately. However, when it comes to the Artists page, it seems that when you follow more than 1.000 artists, the Artist section of your library becomes incomplete and unusable and it also breaks the follow buttons on artist pages. This was very well explained by @MattSuda, another Star, on this thread if you want to take a look.

I know that having this inconsistency is not ideal, but at this moment, there is nothing you can do to solve it because it is a limitation of Spotify itself. Anyway, I can see that that was already reported to the internal teams, but I cannot say when exactly this will be fixed or improved.

Last, but not least, I was very surprised with the numbers you shared. It's a huge collection, indeed, so congratulations!

Stay awesome! 🙂

Let me know if you have further questions or need anything else! I'd love to help!

P.S. Music makes everything better, doesn't it? 🎶🎧

[MattSuda · Accepted solution]

Hey @sleepwalkr007

In the app, if you go to Your Library ➜ and select the "Artists" filter, you should be able to see all of the artists you follow there without a display limit. You can use the sorting options to select "alphabetical" and also search through the list.

However, there is currently a display limit when you view the "Following" list on your profile. When opening up the following list on the profile page, it doesn't show all of the artists and users you follow in the list, it is limited to the amount it displays. It shows 1,000 artists (in what seems to be a random order) and then after that up to 1,000 profiles (in alphabetical order). So if you are looking to see the user profiles that you follow, check near the end of the following list.

I posted this latest update on the issue near the end of 2023: Click here for more info

[sleepwalkr007]

Luan, YOU Sir, are awesome! Thank you for digging into this for me; it seems I didn't look hard enough for an explanation to my issue. As to my collection, I can only wonder how large it would be right now if I didn't erase my original account 8 years ago (accidentally) and had to start over. Music really does get me through most of my days. Thanks again!

[sleepwalkr007]

Matt, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my issue (despite having already addressed this in the past). You have cleared this up for me with the information you provided. Thank you! 

[Luan]

I'm glad to know our recommendation was useful and thanks for marking our replies as solutions. This will help other users to easily find it, in case they face the same question.

Don't forget you can count on us, always when necessary! 💚🎶