New Madonna Compilation

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 Todd Ireland wrote:

Also, bear in mind that Spotify is subject to removing songs from its site without warning whenever the licensing rights with record labels expire, which is something I absolutely detest.  Meanwhile, artists can suddenly decide to remove their entire catalogs in protest, like Neil Young did when Spotify signed podcaster Joe Rogan to a $100 million deal several years ago.  (Young did eventually relent a couple of years later and allowed his music to return to Spotify.) 

I agree that was unfortunate along with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Joni Mitchell. I don't know how Spotify would tell you a certain song would be removed. It would be nice with Youtube videos I save that get removed or set to private. There are other reasons why songs disappear (or greyed out, depending on your settings). I've noticed that they can disappear, but then reappear due to a re-release. Some disappear and reappear in a week for no reason. Ever since 2017, I've kept a playlist of all the songs of the 1980's that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, that Spotify has. The ones that aren't on Spotify, you most likely won't find anywhere aside from YouTube.I can't find any of Peter Wolf's early solo efforts or some artists' songs from movies: "Hole In My Heart" Cyndi Lauper, "Twistin' the Night Away" Rod Stewart. Even all of Toni Basil's songs are re-recorded. Regardless, I can add the missing songs to local files. I will say that streaming music apps as a whole, have come a long way, especially in the increase of songs available on them.