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It's been heading the same direction. There have been a number of artists that pulled out after the Taylor Swift bit, and the Beetles albums are still iTunes only due to an exclusive deal.

You'll see there are quite a few bitter complaints online: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/WHY-do-yo...

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The Beatles are on Spotify. Taylor Swift has even rejoined Spotify, obviously it was worth it for her in the end.

There are only a few artists who are Apple Music or Tidal exclusive, in an attempt drive users to those platforms.

Tool is not on Spotify or Google Play Music. I'm not sure if they are on Apple Music or Tidal. If anyone knows for sure, please do comment, I'm interested to know.

Also, Spotify has 3 Volor Flex albums, but is missing the one I usually want - "Unlit". I'm pretty sure that specific album is on Amazon Music though, oddly enough.

This isn't a particularly substantiative comment, just some datapoints that irk me about Spotify's inventory.

Tool isn't on any streaming services. They don't believe in streaming or something. They're probably the last popular artist/band to eschew all streaming.

The Beatles are not exclusive to iTunes. I can access a tonne of their albums on Deezer.

You're right, it seems they only ran some things exclusively temporarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Bootleg_Recordings...

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