title: Why am I getting intermittent results from the Spotify metadata api?
body: <p>I am trying to get the spotify web api to search for artist based on information provided in an html input field. My results, however, are not consistent. For example, if I search for "foo", I get decent results. However, if I search for "foo fighters", I don't get any results -- even though "foo fighters" will show up if I search for "foo" alone. Likewise, I can get results for "the" but not "katy perry", etc. I am running the code completely within javascript and am using the Jquery getJSON function to query Spotify.</p>
  
  <pre><code>
  function searchSpotify(term)
    {
      var reslt = $.getJSON("http://ws.spotify.com/search/1/artist.json?q="+encode_utf8(term), function(data) {
        items = [];
  
        $.each(data["artists"], function(key, val) {
          items.push('' + val["name"] + '(listen on Spotify)');
        });
  
        $('#data').html(items.join(''));
      });
    }
  
  </code></pre>