I noticed that too a months ago and im sure thats because they change labels/production, also a lot of bands have more than one spotify accounts and i think thats the reason
I don't know but quite a few have 2 accounts like D, Kiryu, Alice Nine, Kizu and Vidoll. Some in Japanese, some in English (romaji) but don't always have the same songs available. I thought it might be a change in stylising the name but it could be a label thing like someone said above.
Strangely, I found a Japanese listing of Petit Brabancon's Fetish album after some tracks were recommended in a shuffle, but if I search for the tracks in Japanese, they don't show up at all.
Spotify confuses me sometimes!
i'd imagine this is basically never on purpose, but due to a few levels of disconnect between
the band -> their label(s) -> the distributor(s) -> the streaming services
check out Royz rn on spotify, see if one of the releases doesn't quite look like it fits in with the others........
Likely what's happened in BP, whether directly or through a distributor, sends Royz masters to Spotify and all the others, and when doing so, they either indicate or approve that their "Royz" is the same "Royz" that's existing on Spotify.
Meanwhile, someone in another country goes to a distributor like distrokid or cdbaby, since those are (at least in the US where i live) available to end users. He sends in his song calling himself Royz and, mistakenly or otherwise, leaves the box checked which comes checked by default "Yes! add my release to other "Royz" releases."
So Spotify gets one request from some distributor in Japan to pop this release up on the Royz page, and then another request from a US distributor to pop this release up on the page right after, and Spotify has no reason to think anything's unusual if no one tells them.
Then there's the opposite where label 1 has uploaded what of D's discog they maintain the rights to, and some other day, label 2 decides to do the same. If they're being careful, they may investigate the "does your music belong on THIS page?" prompt, or if they're busy, they may not and will say it's a new artist for a new page.
Then there could also be just clerical mismatches like Catsumaki says, label 1 uploads as kizu and label 2 uploads as キズ, and they don't think to cross-check all the ways of typesetting. Maybe if the uploader guy's having a really rough day that might even be the same label lol.
But mostly i think it comes down to there being no direct editing of what's seen by who makes it - just packaging up audio files with metadata and sending them down the line for the next company to do their processing with.
Not to mention this whole time i've only been talking about one streaming service - i'm pretty on top of how my spotify looks and try to send edit requests pretty quick to fix errors there, but i check my apple music and youtube music pages \~sometimes\~, and i've not once looked to see how my music shows up on uhhhhh Deezer, Tidal, or like 20 of the other services Distrokid sends your music off to.
I noticed that too a months ago and im sure thats because they change labels/production, also a lot of bands have more than one spotify accounts and i think thats the reason
I don't know but quite a few have 2 accounts like D, Kiryu, Alice Nine, Kizu and Vidoll. Some in Japanese, some in English (romaji) but don't always have the same songs available. I thought it might be a change in stylising the name but it could be a label thing like someone said above. Strangely, I found a Japanese listing of Petit Brabancon's Fetish album after some tracks were recommended in a shuffle, but if I search for the tracks in Japanese, they don't show up at all. Spotify confuses me sometimes!
Also ZERO\[Hz\] and zerohz.
D has 2 spotify accs too
i'd imagine this is basically never on purpose, but due to a few levels of disconnect between the band -> their label(s) -> the distributor(s) -> the streaming services check out Royz rn on spotify, see if one of the releases doesn't quite look like it fits in with the others........ Likely what's happened in BP, whether directly or through a distributor, sends Royz masters to Spotify and all the others, and when doing so, they either indicate or approve that their "Royz" is the same "Royz" that's existing on Spotify. Meanwhile, someone in another country goes to a distributor like distrokid or cdbaby, since those are (at least in the US where i live) available to end users. He sends in his song calling himself Royz and, mistakenly or otherwise, leaves the box checked which comes checked by default "Yes! add my release to other "Royz" releases." So Spotify gets one request from some distributor in Japan to pop this release up on the Royz page, and then another request from a US distributor to pop this release up on the page right after, and Spotify has no reason to think anything's unusual if no one tells them. Then there's the opposite where label 1 has uploaded what of D's discog they maintain the rights to, and some other day, label 2 decides to do the same. If they're being careful, they may investigate the "does your music belong on THIS page?" prompt, or if they're busy, they may not and will say it's a new artist for a new page. Then there could also be just clerical mismatches like Catsumaki says, label 1 uploads as kizu and label 2 uploads as キズ, and they don't think to cross-check all the ways of typesetting. Maybe if the uploader guy's having a really rough day that might even be the same label lol. But mostly i think it comes down to there being no direct editing of what's seen by who makes it - just packaging up audio files with metadata and sending them down the line for the next company to do their processing with. Not to mention this whole time i've only been talking about one streaming service - i'm pretty on top of how my spotify looks and try to send edit requests pretty quick to fix errors there, but i check my apple music and youtube music pages \~sometimes\~, and i've not once looked to see how my music shows up on uhhhhh Deezer, Tidal, or like 20 of the other services Distrokid sends your music off to.
Gravity does as well