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I’m seeing a weird Apple Music catalog bug with the A-List Pop playlist.

In the playlist, “End of an Era” by Niall Horan is greyed out. When I tap it from the playlist, Apple Music shows:

“This item is not currently available in your country or region.”

But if I go to the album/artist page directly, the same song plays normally.

Details:
- I’m in New York
- No VPN
- US Apple Music account
- Apple Music subscription is active
- The issue only happens when accessing the song through the official A-List Pop playlist
- The song itself is playable elsewhere in Apple Music
- Screenshots attached

It seems like the official playlist may be pointing to a wrong/unavailable regional catalog version of the track, while the album page points to the correct playable one.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there any local fix, or does Apple need to refresh/fix the playlist metadata?

I’m on the U.S. Apple Music storefront, so this doesn’t seem like the usual country/region availability issue. The weird part is that the first few tracks are playable, but a lot of the already-released songs by other artists are still greyed out, even though those songs are available separately on Apple Music.

For me, tracks like Dua Lipa’s “End Of An Era” and others are greyed out inside the soundtrack album, but the songs themselves can be found elsewhere. So it feels more like a compilation soundtrack licensing/metadata issue rather than the songs actually being unavailable.

I saw some people mention that the album became playable for them after a delay, but it’s still not fixed for me today. I’ve tried reopening Apple Music, but the tracks are still greyed out.

Is anyone else still experiencing this? And does removing/re-adding the album, changing library settings, or anything else actually fix it?

iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 26.4.2