Somebody REALLY does not want this hit available. The real song has been removed from all other platforms as well. It disappeared at some point in 2016 and has been stubbornly unavailable since. This is a big hit.Īll of the 94 #2 singles are available except for Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue" (1983). In the age of the disappearing holdout, a massive #1 hit should be available, and certainly its parent album with three other hits should also be made available. I would say that making this album available again should be ONE OF SPOTIFY'S TOP PRIORITIES! Whatever is up with Unidisc, fix it. The other big problem is that the album has three other Top 40 hits. The trained ear can hear that they are not authentic, but it keeps attention away from the "real" song's absence. The big problem with this song is that Spotify is LITTERED with fakes credited to Cara. Neither the "What a Feelin'" album art nor that of the "Flashdance" soundtrack album displays, only the art from the compilation. The #1 song itself was unavailable for most of that time, but it very recently reappeared via a compilation (fairly common when albums are suppressed that "hits" will appear on compilations-often they are nuked when the "right" people get wind of this, and I realize that I am drawing attention to it here). It is licensed to Canadian label Unidisc. The entire "What a Feelin'" album was greyed out a couple of years ago, and it has not returned. I am talking about "Flashdance.What a Feeling" by Irene Cara. However, there is one song on the #1 list that is "problematic," a huge six-week chart topper from 1983. That exception, Michael Damian's 2009 version of "Rock On" (1989) is fairly insignificant, since the 2009 version sounds remarkably similar to the original and is confirmed to be the original artist. The good news is that finally, AS OF RIGHT NOW, March 12, 2020, all 232 #1 songs from 1980-1989 are available, all except one in their original versions. I will talk about songs that have been "problematic," not just songs that are unavailable right now, and some will be treated more extensively than others. I will go through the songs in order of peak position, as on that thread. But I thought that a separate thread with information I know about the individual songs would be nice, if for nothing else then to let Spotify know where some work needs to be done with labels and rights holders. I plan to update that thread with some new information, as there has been quite a bit of activity since I did. This is a separate follow-up to my long-dormant thread about 1980s Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 songs not available on Spotify.
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