Exclusive: Carly McNamara thought it was a glitch when she opened Spotify and saw track nine from one of her favourite albums had vanished.
Shock turned to sadness when she learned the song – Human Too by The 1975 - had been wiped from streaming services entirely.
And the culprit was none other than the band's frontman, Matt Healy.
While his decision left some fans inconsolable, it also made any physical copies of the album in their possession a whole lot more valuable.
"If you've got a CD and you press play on it, it's not going to get affected by The 1975 deciding they don't like that song," University of Wollongong researcher and music psychologist Dr Tim Byron told 9news.com.au.
"Artists can recall the ones from the shop, but they can't recall it from the cupboard where

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