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'There are tens of millions of the the best music fans in the world using Spotify and we're obviously disappointed at the band's decision to withhold this album from them.'

'Coldplay has decided not to make Ghost Stories available on Spotify and other streaming services,' a Spotify spokesperson told The Guardian. Taylor Swift and Adele are two other prominent musicians whose last albums were windowed in this way. However, holding back albums – or 'windowing' as it's sometimes known – is sometimes more about trying to maximise sales through download stores like iTunes before opening out to streaming, rather than a permanent boycott on principle. However, it is also hard not to interpret the messages as a slight raising of the stakes in the ongoing debate about albums being withheld from streaming services: making sure fans know who's responsible for an album not being accessible on their service of choice, and perhaps tacitly encouraging them to protest about it.Ī number of artists and songwriters have spoken out against Spotify and streaming in general over the last year, criticising the size of the royalties they get (via their label or publisher) from streams of their work. As Spotify goes after an ever-more mainstream audience, this kind of explanation will be necessary. Motivation? On the one hand, it's a sensible move: explaining to Spotify users why they can't listen to a particular album rather than just pretending it doesn't exist.

However, for Atoms for Peace – prominent critics of Spotify in recent times – there's no message, or indeed any listing for the band's albums, so the message isn't yet standard practice for any album withheld from Spotify. The message that fans see on Coldplay's Spotify profile.

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