Songs distributed by Kakao M have been removed from Spotify

[ONF]

Many songs that have been licensed by Kakao M are missing from Spotify due to a possible dispute between MelOn and Spotify.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1366047044062879746

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1366051073723494400

Some of the affected artists include IU, The Boyz, Mamamoo, N.Flying, GFriend, BTOB, KARA, Epik High, WJSN, STAYC, Monsta X, ONEUS, VICTON, Pentagon, Golden Child, CLC, VIXX, APRIL, Saturday, Seventeen, gugudan, Loona, Apink, Cherry Bullet, Elris, MCND, SF9, OnlyOneOf, D-Crunch, DPR LIVE, (G)I-DLE, and UP10TION.

Spoiler: Examples of missing albums

 

[ONF]

BAE173, 1TEAM and E'Last's entire discography and Not a sad song by ONF are gone, I'm so sad

 

[_YourAverageFanboy_]

Spotify really said "I don't like you, so I'mma mess with a whole bunch of other people's paychecks "

 

[ONF]

Spotify really said "I don't like you, so I'mma mess with a whole bunch of other people's paychecks "

Right, and if they're doing that just so people would start using MelOn to stream songs instead then that's just dumb because MelOn is primarily used by the Korean audience and they're blocking out international listeners which makes no sense since many of those listens comes from people in other countries. Besides, Spotify is a popular platform and they're just being mean by removing songs from there

 

[pika_chuu]

Omg pentagon?! I gotta go check my spotify...

 

[yunaing]

This is the amount of songs on my liked songs list I can no longer listen to because of this bs: 93

I've lost 93 of some of my favourite songs, 23 being on my favourites playlist and 1 of them being my second favourite song.

I'm actually crying

Update: so my laptop lied to me there's even more songs than I thought and Egotistic (aka my favourite song) is one of them

 

[ONF]

Omg pentagon?! I gotta go check my spotify...

Demo_01, Demo_02, almost all songs from Five Senses and PENTAGON, Ceremony, and Genie:us have been removed I think

 

[LostInTheDream]

wtf I feel bad for you all. I hope you get your music back soon.
I'm on apple music...

 

[lynch.]

MAMAMOO AND LOONA ARE MY ULT GGs WTF KAKAO M
AND IU???? shes my favorite solo artist ;-;

 

[saaylhy]

Oh...I feel bad for y'all
but i don't use Spotify so-

 

[ImJustKpopTrash]

My spotify playlist is quaking- i'm actually so sad.

 

[https.jisoobiased]

im missing 26 songs....

 

[ImJustKpopTrash]

i'm missing like 200 songs or something ridiculous

 

[HyungwonsBlondeBangs]

:0
I'm gonna cry-

 

[Naomi]

Basically Spotify enters SK .. Melon automatically senses a big competitor.. Kakao M bans Spotify which in turn for Spotify to remove songs distributed by Kakao M

This means Business War

 

[Hwa_ChaeMing]

aaaaarggghhh so many of the songs on a playlist I made from the forum are gone

 

[taesshlong]

i'm so fucking sad. literally everyone i love, everyone who brings me comfort. i'm-

 

[anmybeloved]

This is the amount of songs on my liked songs list I can no longer listen to because of this bs: 93

I've lost 93 of some of my favourite songs, 23 being on my favourites playlist and 1 of them being my second favourite song.

I'm actually crying

Update: so my laptop lied to me there's even more songs than I thought and Egotistic (aka my favourite song) is one of them

i cant listen to like a good c. 200 so yeah spotify is not my friend

 

[pika_chuu]

i can't listen to so many pentagon songs, and vixx and clc... half of it is gone..

 

[puertty]

Y'all should have saw kara's. they only have 5 songs available to listen to.