Spotify really wants you to play Spotify's own AI music, since they get to pay themselves the artist royalty.

Artists will at least show up further down the list usually. With songs it often just will not show the song at all when the title is an exact match, it will instead fill the entire results list with "lyric matches" that I'm sure don't have matches at all as they're often in different languages to the search query.

I would gladly go back to piracy but music piracy is way harder than the old days, thanks to Spotify.

I've been looking at maybe switching to Tidal but the Spotify inertia is strong