How come Spotify dislikes XXXTentacion?

[Spadaspa]

XXXTentacion released his album just about a day ago and he doesn't get on the spotify "new realeases". Not only that, but also XXXTentacion who has over 5M+ listeners a month isn't verified on Spotify. This is just straight up bias and I'm kind of regretting getting premium if Spotify is so biased.

[Maxim · Accepted solution]

Hey @Spadaspa,

Thanks for reaching out.

I believe that the "New Releases" page is different for every user/region, so you might not see that album on there, while some other people do.

Also, the artist page is most likely not verified because the artist or their label/management haven't requested verification 🙂 Spotify doesn't verify artist pages themselves, it has to be requested first.