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It looks like a huge catalogue of K-pop has disappeared from Spotify, including tracks from MAMAMOO, Loona, MONSTA X, IU and more

  • Stephen Ackroyd
  • February 28, 2021

It looks like a huge catalogue of K-pop has disappeared from Spotfiy.

Reports from the US, UK, Canada and Germany suggest that releases licensed by Kakao M are no longer available to be played via the streaming service.

That means tracks from Seventeen, MONSTA X, Loona, IU, Apink, MAMAMOO (pictured), GFriend, The Boyz, SF9, Pentagon, CLC, Astro, Weki Meki, Golden Child, Cravity and VICTON, amongst others, are currently missing.

You can find a list of just some of the artists currently with tracks unavailable in the tweet thread below.

artists that had their stuff on spotify deleted, a thread

wei
kim wooseok
the boyz
d1ce
bibi
minseo
iu
victon
pink fantasy
epik high
cherry bullet
oneus
e'last
cravity
giriboy
june
kim sunggyu
bae173
moonbyul
dpr live
wh3n
woo!ah!
hyolyn
code kunst
drippin
jannabi
jukjae

— ً (@lemonphobic) February 28, 2021

Spotify recently launched in Korea without the Kakao M catalogue, with a deal yet to be signed. “We are still talking with Spotify (about distributing our songs through their platform),” Kakao M’s spokesperson shared with The Korea Herald. Kakao M already own a popular streaming platform, Melon, for which Spotify’s new launch will be a competitor.

Some fans are speculating the mass disappearance is due to this rivalry, though the cause is yet to be confirmed. However, a tweet from Tablo of Epik High claims it’s due to a disagreement, which has “made our new album… unavailable globally against our will”.

Apparently a disagreement between our distributor Kakao M & Spotify has made our new album Epik High Is Here unavailable globally against our will. Regardless of who is at fault, why is it always the artists and the fans that suffer when businesses place greed over art?

— 에픽하이 타블로 | Tablo of Epik High (@blobyblo) February 28, 2021

While we’re waiting to find out more, you can read our recent chats with MONSTA X and Cravity.

Related Topics
  • Apink
  • Astro
  • CLC
  • Cravity
  • GFriend
  • Golden Child
  • IU
  • Loona
  • MAMAMOO
  • MONSTA X
  • Pentagon
  • Seventeen
  • SF9
  • The Boyz
  • VICTON
  • Weki Meki
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