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Is anyone fed up with seeing a song in their Release Radar, getting excited about your favourite artists releasing a new album, then being disappointed that the artist has decided to only drop one song from the album, which you will likely get sick of before the album releases?

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I’m tired of having subscribed to one of my favorite artists, then release radar gives me a horrible song by an artist who apparently took their name. Then when I hit dislike every single week and unsubscribe it still keeps giving me their garbage.

I thought it was a fluke at first but it has happened now with about 4-5 artists.

The same happened to me; one of my liked bands apparently released an album; it then turns out that it was some other band that just happened to have the same name. Seems they compare band-names instead of some unique-ids; no idea how they thought this would be a good idea.

This drives me nuts. I want to listen to an album, not a song. But I'm guessing this is an old-school POV that the younger demographic doesn't agree with.

I'm not young anymore (35) but I really don't care about albums

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