Release Radar includes wrong artist with same name as desired artist

[abcdefgabcdefg]

I constantly find my Release Radar recommending songs by an artist (say A) with the same name as an artist (say A') that I might actually wanna listen to. This is extremely dumb as an issue because these two artists are listed as genuinely different artists in Spotify and the newly recommended song by a wrong artist is listed as a song of A' in the system. A reasonable conclusion is that at least Release Radar does not look into the artist IDs but just merely refers to their names. This happens to like 5 different artists to me and my Release Radar is contaminated by songs which I have absolutely no interest in. I believe this is a very basic bug that can be fixed in like 5 minutes.

[jeremycorbett]

Except its true

[TobLoef]

The same artist keeps showing up in my Release Radar, even though I have disliked them for several weeks in a row. Spotify even says "Got it. From now on we won't put <Artist> in your Release Radar", but this is clearly not working as intended. In my case the artist is "Monstercat Silk Showcase", but I have seen other people have the same issue.

To forestall the common answers I have seen:

• I am not following the artist.
• I use Spotify plenty, the algorithm shouldn't need to add artists I've explicitly disliked.
• I have tried re-installing Spotify, and the issues occur across devices.
• I am not going to create a new account and lose years of history, only to have the issue repeat.

I have spotify version "1.1.64.561.g71bd09eb-a" on Windows 10 version 1909.

Please advise as to what I can do to fix this issue, or where I can post a proper bug report if this is not the appropriate forum.

[MicheleCre8tes]

Hi – this is a ridiculously infuriating problem I still have, too.
Every single week they are listing the main artist on a 'collab' as Berlin (the legitimate band which I do follow), but I get some hiphop artist. Every week my release radar is riddled with this nonsense. Which is a real shame, because I really do look forward to the LEGIT real releases I could get recommendations for. Then every time this **bleep** comes up and it plays for seconds before I divert, I'm sure it's ruining my algorithms I've so carefully curated over the years. And now I'm not even able to 'dislike' or 'don't play this song anymore' any of them! 
This is the most recent one
https://open.spotify.com/track/614PenJ1DB9xNty5k26Lij?si=03097da755a6472d
And this garbage even shows up on Berlin's actual real verified page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2aS6jYh7ysTL1ZUsHneNgM?si=2gxTQ-efSGqYAW3tGYHzeA&dl_branch=1

Also, fake James 'collab' trash: https://open.spotify.com/track/5C9wWRy8VXrMi8J51LeNZO?si=6562665752c54c84

This one is extra tricky, because James DOES have a new release, and this track isn't showing on the legit James profile. Maybe because there are SO many artists listed on this single? I have no idea about all the other artists listed in this mess, but it's nowhere near James and their style. 
Attaching screenshots, too.

Every week there's at least 2. Usually more. I'm a premium listener, and it's really frustrating and having me consider my monthly payments.

Spotify, please please figure this out. Your algorithms that help me find music I love is one of my fave features, and these garbage musicians are wreaking havoc on it – not to mention I'm sure it's hurting the real artists' and their followings in some ways.

[MicheleCre8tes]

Oh and I forgot to mention... When I do report the offending artist, there is NO option that relates to this. Only that it's offensive in some way in their picture or text. Please AT LEAST add a feature that is a quick and direct way to report these people. Sounds like a huge problem, and being able to quickly report it accurately rather than having to hunt forever to find this thread and explain ourselves would be extremely helpful. 

[-StigtriX-]

This absolute garbage was associated with the K Pop artist HEIZE: https://open.spotify.com/album/0O1Q8Sx8zkweiauT7TZHxy?si=TlgldUlZSWKe3GcKZ9tjwA&dl_branch=1

This problem is so extreme that I lose the will to go through Release Radar and Discover Weekly. Combined with the bloat of the podcasts I cannot hide and the focus on stupid new tech like voice recognition, I no longer feel thar Spotify cares about what I need and want from a music service. I have cancelled my subscription.

Make Spotify great again!

[Mattie_453]

Been noticing this a few times now and it's quite annoying. It seems this issue has been reported for over a year now and I'm very surprised it hasn't been fixed as it's entirely avoidable considering the Spotify API has a unique URI/ID for each artist...

For reference this happened with the artist ALMA 

but in my playlist instead was...

[w9t6l-t6s_ok]

Today was the first day I've noticed a correction. There was an artist named Gojan-PR who claimed to collaborate with Run the Jewels. Today RTJ has been taken off the track but the track is still in my Release Radar.

[jeremycorbett]

Just seen my most offensive "tag a famous artist to your shitty track" scam yet in my Release Radar. This obscure Hungarian pop artist who has like 1000 monthly listeners tagged SOPHIE to their track, a musician and producer who tragically passed away earlier this year. And who also has almost 600,000 monthly listeners.

It is completely unnacceptable that Spotify allows this to happen, especially as there is no obvious way for me to report this.

[hello320155]

The same nonsense happens to me regularly and it's really embarrassing that Spotify doesn't do anything about it. Perhaps if instead of trying to shove lame podcasts down our throats they spent some time and effort on actual music.

The amount of annoying, stupid, unprofessional stuff that goes on with this company is kind of fascinating ha ha.

There must be a huge amount of potential customers for a decent rival service. Imagine it.. a streaming service that doesn't suck.

[jeremycorbett]

The one I reported above is still up, 3 weeks later, after I went through the laborious process of reporting it, got a reply where the member of staff writing to me didn't seem to understand what the problem is, replied to that explaining it clearer and never heard anything back.

So, reporting it yourself appears to be a complete waste of time.

The one I listed previously that had been addressed by the scammed artist themselves did actually get taken down, so it seems the only way to get these scam tracks actioned is to tell the artist directly.

This doesn't work however when the artist in question DIED a few months ago.

It's absolutely shameful.

[jeremycorbett]

Another one this week actually!

Appears not to be malicious though in this case - the 'Icarus' the track is assigned to have reached out to the other 'Icarus' to tell them of the error. Still sucks though

https://twitter.com/birdy_electric/status/1438133447734792195

[Keith00000]

edit: know what, i'm done with spotify tbh. its service has not evolved much at all over its lifetime while new and innovative competitors have surfaced.

[minklet]

Embarrassing that this still happens. How can it be so easy to game the system and add an established artist to your awful EDM tune? The playlists are the only reason I like spotify, but they are turning to rubbish because they can't get their act together. 

[decuman]

In my latest release radar got this:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6MnT91EEEYVcRspBGY3pMQ?si=cc8787bacb7246fd
That's not Bola I have in my favorites.

I'm not reporting just because there is no easy way to report and moreover my attemts to use the cumbersome official way of reporting didn't produce any results.
Any reason for not having smth like this simple UI addition which could spare some reporting time for users?

(Don't suggest me to create an "idea" topic and wait till it gets enough votes - that should be the service specialists/alalysts effort to simplify the way of reporting issues)

[thousandaire]

Pretty stunning that Spotify’s answer continues to be “not our fault” about an easily fixed issue that is 100% their fault. You can’t blame the system - you are the system. Maybe take some of the $100 million you pay Joe Rogan to spread vaccine disinformation and use it to pay decent database programmers.

[jeremycorbett]

Some trash scam artist calling himself ISNARD has appeared for the second time in two weeks claiming electronic music legends as collaborators on his tracks.

The one he did last week seems to have been taken down, how comes he's not banned?

Rhetorical question, because Spotify dgaf

[ishi_the_fishy]

It would appear that Spotify is no longer responding to this thread. The moderator stated they were going to take a few weeks off toward the beginning of the year and then never returned.  The issue remains unresolved and it doesn't appear that there is any intention of fixing the problem.  I suspect that this is some "pay-to-list" feature that new artists can use to promote their work and this serves as a revenue stream for Spotify. 

In summary, Spotify's "ad-free" Premium subscription now comes with ads, whether you like it or not.  Time to move on to a new service.

[jeremycorbett]

No dodgy tracks this week, amazing!

Still have had no reply from support for the two tracks I reported last week.

PM'd Mihail to see if he might respond to this thread.

I'm now doing my research into alternative streaming services. Been paying subscriber to Spotify for ... 7 years? But just hate giving money to companies that clearly give not a single toss about their customers and would rather throw millions of dollars at reactionary numbskull podcasters to spread vaccine misinformation,  than fixing actual problems.

[minklet]

Unbelievably Spotify have now made it harder to report these blatant gamings of the system

https://open.spotify.com/album/12Z2kvPrRzYXEaRxhzguZI?si=Wnson6NhQ42XcZhtBF127A

This song doesn't have little simz on it but the artist has added her to get more listens. I've decided to move to apple music, the playlists are rubbish on spotify now and they don't care

[packep]

I'm about to end my subscription cause of this.

The best day of the week is Friday mornings when I come to work and start my release radar with a fresh pot of coffee.

I'm a metal fan and I have nursed my spotify account hard for the last 4 years to avoid messed up recomendations.

Todays release radar contains 30 tracks and I have to remove 10 of them. That's 30% of the whole list. I find it totally unacceptable that Spotify can't separate a rapper called Venom from the actual black metal band. For at least 5 times I have removed DJ snake from my list and it still comes back on my relase radar. Hos is it possible to add a rapper called Venom to the actual band Venom?