Specific artists keep becoming unfollowed no matter how many times I follow them.

[Travelguy36]

Plan

Premium

Country

Serbia

Device

Huawei P10 Lite

Operating System

Android version 8.0.0

My Question or Issue

Artists keep ending up under "Recommended artists" even after I follow them multiple times.  What happens is I will follow a band and later, close out of spoify.  When I open the app again they will be back under "Recommended artists" and this happens no matter how many times I follow the artist.

I have 5450 liked tracks and 1240 followed artists on version Spotify 8.5.87.921 for my Huawei P10 Lite.

The following artists keep ending up under "Recommended artists" no matter how many times I follow them as soon as I exit spotify and restart the app: The 6ths, Pan American, SBB, Hood, The Belinda Butchers, Broken little sister, Paul Van Dyk, The Edgar Winter Group, Bob Dylan, My Violaine Morning, Curve, Meniscus, Readymade, Arab Strap, Propagandi, Frank Zappa, Vidulgi OogoO, Wild Nothing, Labradford, And I watched you from afar, Swingin' Utters, Henry Cow, Tanukichan, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Lymbyc System, Ben Frost, The Zephyrs, 5ive style, Savage Republic, Aphew Twin, Peter Gabriel, Vello Leaf, An autumn for crippled children, The best pessimist, Amusement parks on fire, Sigur Ros, The Mars volta, Bob Weir, Throw me the statue, Broken Social scene, pg.lost, Jega, Malory, Bowery Electric, Memory Tapes, Simon and Garfunkel, The Deviants, Autechre, Univers Zero, Kimrock, Burning House, Millencolin, Death by stereo, Gastr del sol, Downset, The Magnetic fields, Outputmessage, I am no hero, Yes, Cepia, Slowdive, Rodan, Clearlight, Lanterna, The outlaws, Pennywise, Our last hope lost hope, Rancid, Yndi halda, The Paul Butterfield Blues band, Ellis the vacuumchild, The war on drugs, Blackhearted brother, Galaxie 500, Cemeteries, and Carlos Santana.

I am seriously considering NOT paying for the premium subscription anymore if this continues. 

I have tried many, if not all of the generic fixes like restarting my phone, turning off my phone and turning it back on again, uninstalling and reinstalling Spotify, signing out and signing back into spotify, tried my account on 3 different devices including a Samsung Tablet and etc.  I only use this on my Android device but for the interest of seeing if this was just limited to my device, I tested this on my tablet and my gfs phone with my account and had the same issue with the same artists.  In case the 1000 artist limit is coming into play, I tried to unfollow five artists already in my list and follow five artists from the list above and they are still ending up under "Recommended artists" upon exiting and restarting the app.

I would like a real fix to this issue because it is annoying and I have noticed topics dating back to 2013 or 2014 about this very thing.

[Mihail]

Hey @Travelguy36,

Thanks for posting and welcome to the Community!

We're sorry to hear your artist keep getting unfollowed and will be happy to help you out.  Please keep in mind that it might take up to about a week after you follow an artist for them to get removed from the recommendations.

As you mention however that specific artists repeatedly get unfollowed we recommend that you go ahead and secure your account using the instructions in this Support Page. Don't forget to change the password for any service associated with your account, such as your email address, Facebook, or Apple.
 

We recommend that you also have a look at all third party apps that have access to your Spotify account and remove any you don't recognize. You can learn how to do this here.  For the other ones you should update the login info as well.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted on how it goes.  

[Travelguy36]

I will try this and get back to you.

[Jeremy]

Hey there @Travelguy36,

Thank you for your reply.

Let us know how it goes so we can keep on assist you if you need us to. We're always one reply away.

Cheers 🙂