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Proof

Not Spotify, but iTunes Festival: London 2011 is back on Apple Music. Not to be confused with the other one with the same title (or the other 5 or 6 different versions from over the years). I assume the cover art is a placeholder.

If you live in the US, it's now possible to stream Proof outside of Apple Music via a compilation called Relax in barca.

Labels like to churn out these shovelware compilation albums, seemingly in an attempt to game streams for their artists' songs. They usually have a generic title and a cover that looks like it was designed by someone who just discovered Photoshop and stock images. Or it could just be spam. It's hard to tell the difference.

There's been a trickle of 1 track singles released over the last month and a half. Notably, A Spell a Rebel Yell and Clocks (Royksopp Trembling Heart Mix). Not so notably, some Viva la Vida and Mylo Xyloto singles that are identical to the album tracks.

It's a B-side from 16 years ago and its presence outside of Spotify is very welcome.

How You See the World (live from Earls Court) and Death Will Never Conquer, from The Hardest Part and Viva la Vida singles respectively, are now available outside of Spotify. That's 2 that can be struck from my previous list.

I'd like to see them release a new mix of the album, like REM's Monster or Muse's Origin of Symmetry. I'd love to see them do what the Manic Street Preachers did with Know Your Enemy. Expand the tracklist with B-sides and split it into a double album, one called X and the other Y. Edit that stupid "Others are puzzles, puzzling me" line to "Others are puzzles, troubling me". Include a new mix and demo of How You See the World, but not the original. Reveal that, I don't know, The Hardest Part originally had the lyrics of What If or something. You know, something interesting. What I actually expect them to do is throw out a Dolby Atmos mix and two 4K music video upgrades and then call it a day, like Coldplay did with A Rush of Blood to the Head.

As of January, Wish I Was Here is downloadable/streamable and US fans can finally listen to the Talk single somewhere other than Spotify or Apple Music. On the other hand, you'll have to go back to those to listen to Moving to Mars again because that Ambient Pop compilation has gone from the US. For anyone else keeping track of these things, that leaves Proof, The World Turned Upside Down, Pour Me, How You See the World (live from Earls Court), A Spell a Rebel Yell and Death Will Never Conquer as platform- and/or region-locked songs that should otherwise be widely available.

You can stream it too, if you live in Canada.

If you're in the US and don't use Spotify and/or Apple Music, the songs Moving to Mars and Sleeping Sun are available to stream on the compilations Ambient Pop for Relaxation and Winter Ballads respectively. Edit: For anyone in the 15 countries which can't stream True Love (Davide Rossi Remix) (notably Canada), you now can via the compilation Friends Pop.

Adventure of a Lifetime (Yotto Remix) I don't think this one was commercially available until now.

Midnight (Jon Hopkins Remix) is now on Spotify and elsewhere. If anyone wasn't already aware, How You See the World No. 2 also returned in September.

How You See the World No. 2 (from the Help: A Day in the Life charity compilation) is back on streaming/download. There's also pre-orders for vinyl releases of the album at https://warchildrecords.tmstor.es/, for anyone into that kind of thing.

Proof is on Spotify everywhere but in the US, where it's only available on Apple Music/iTunes. Does anyone know if Lhuna played on the SiriusXM station from last year? That would be a good sign for it showing up elsewhere at some point.