This page is a list of artists who were on Spotify UK but have now been removed, and of artists who are not yet on Spotify. You can read the details about the reasons behind the removals but basically it comes down to the artist or label deciding to remove their content, or publishing deals expiring.
Please list any others you know of in the comments and we will update this page!
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Gone But Not Forgotten
Artists who were on Spotify UK before but have been removed or now have only a few releases remaining:
- Arcade Fire – Ocean of silence
- Blink-182 – I miss you
- Bob Dylan – A fool such as him
- Gronibard – No nuggets
- La Roux – Not bulletproof
- The Postal Service – They gave up
- Mistabishi – Play from nowhere
- Rammstein – Ich hab’ keine titel
- Pete Shelley – He’s a shy boy
- Spandau Ballet – To cut a long list of songs short
- Speech Debelle – Gone then, bye
- The Tallest Man On Earth – Out of the stream
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They Want You to Pirate Them
Artists who have declined to be on Spotify UK or who haven’t been added yet:
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- AC/DC
- The Beatles
- Beborn Beton
- Cardiacs
- Codeine
- Jonathan Coulton
- Chromatics
- De La Soul
- The Eagles
- Entheogenic
- Evil’s Toy
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Robert Fripp
- Foetus
- Peter Gabriel
- IAMX
- Intermix
- King Crimson
- Led Zeppelin
- John Lennon
- Mad Caddies
- John Maus
- Metallica
- Momus
- Nouvelle Vague
- Oasis
- Outhere Brothers
- The Pasadena Roof Orchestra
- Pink Floyd
- Kelley Polar
- Anthony Rother
- Shiny Toy Guns
- Snap!
- Tool
- Toy Dolls
- Alden Tyrell
- VNV Nation
- Wolfsheim
- Yellow Magic Orchestra
- Frank Zappa
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Led Zeppelin and Tool can be added to the second list.
There’s no IAMX on Spotify, which is a real shame…
Added those to the page, thx. I’m a big fan of IAMX so with you there John
What about “Navy Blue” by Diane Renay?
Why isn`t it on here-it was a hit 46 years ago!!
Wait a minute! Now comes the standard problem with different regions. In the Swedish Spotify there are two IAMX albums.
(here and here)
Hmmm maybe this list wasn’t such a good idea… Since I’m in UK, I will keep this as a “Missing from UK” list. Swedes can gloat about how lucky they are to have IAMX etc. :p
I’ve got the full Oasis catalogue available on Spotify in Norway, so at least they don’t want Norwegians to pirate them…
Wanted to check out some 65daysofstatic but can’t..
No RHCP, Until last week there was no MSI, but 1 album and 1 single now up. DJ Fresh is on there but not in the UK. I guess thats why tpb is still popular
I see about half the Chili Peppers albums on Spotify UK and a couple from Mindless Self Indulgence too (~Straight to Video” track labeling is totally b0rked).
Eyeball Records re-added today?
You can add Mad Caddies to the second list. Unfortunately.
If you edit your preferences you can see what songs are available in Spotify, but are geographically restricted.
Just uncheck the “Hide unplayable tracks”.
Then the unavailable (geographic, premium-only etc) titles will show in red text.
French removals include a large chuck of Serge Gainsbourgs best stuff, and everything by Francois Hardy
Infected Mushroom back for UK as well?
Most of Spandau Ballet’s back catalogue disappeared today :/ Fortunately, the ‘classics’ are on compilations that are still available
On the other hand OPM have arrived.
Other artists who have disappeared from UK are ‘The Hot Toddies’ (‘HTML’ was an office fave)
I have a shared playlist called ‘100 Rock n roll hits’, it’s gradually shrinking – down to 83 tracks now.
FYI Oasis personally own the rights to their music in the UK, but outside of the UK it is owned by the labels, whic his why we can’t get Oasis on spotify in the UK, but everyone else can.
Thanks for the updates guys, keep ‘em coming!
There’s not a lot of industrial out there, I wanna listen to music that I never hear on the radio!. I can’t get any Flesh Field ANYWHERE these days.
add blink 182 to removed list :’(
apocalypse can happen now as blink have been removed from uk spotify and theyve got an album coming sooon
I noticed Mistabishi’s album DROP was added in November, is now unavailable, but it doesnt say UK, just not available as if no-one can listen to it.