why Lake Street Dive's new album is not available on Spotify?

[bondroff]

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Does anyone know why Lake Street Dive's new album is not available on Spotify?  Their previous albums as well as a couple of songs from the new album, Side Pony, are available but I'd like to hear the whole album.  Thanks!

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@bondroff

I am not exactly sure, usually it is because of issues with a label. But doing an expanded search the idie label Nonesuch Records, which is under the parent label company Warner Music Group, an expanded search spotify:search:label:Nonesuch shows plenty of content by other artists on the service on that label. I remember an article a month or so back mentioning that Warner Music and Spotify where in negotiations again, not sure if that has anything yet to do with it? A user can usually tell if there are problems with a label, a large chunk of the labels music becomes unavailable until things are worked out.

But not surprising with Indie artists, since this is the artist's first release on that label, and the band also has a favorable rating from AllMusic, maybe the label and band are holding out on streaming to see how CD and digital sales goes? I checked another streaming service, and the new release is not there yet either, just the new singles released from the new release are available same as Spotify.

In the meantime my standard response:

Spotify wants all the world's music, and they're working hard on making this happen for you. However sometimes agreements can’t be reached with the artist or label or a change may happen in music ownership.

Spotify adds thousands of albums and artists are added every day. If you can’t find an artist you’re looking for, they may appear (or reappear) soon. In the meantime, feel free to contact the artist or their label to ask when they plan to be on Spotify.