Spotify is still the top streaming service around, but the company has done little to address the lack of new music from a large collection of major artists when their albums are released. The projects eventually show up — all of the aforementioned artists outside of Adele, Beyoncé, and Kanye West brought their projects over to Spotify a week after they were released — but that first-week hype and those streams can never be recaptured. The big question for Spotify: will this absence start to hurt its user growth in an increasingly competitive market?
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