Cannot download app because only "open" appears as option.

Upon searching for the spotify app to download on my brand new iPad, I discovered I only had the option to "Open" the app, not to download. It is a brand new iPad and I did not do a cloud backup from an old iPad, I started from scratch. I have double/triple/quadruple checked that it does not already exist on my iPad and confirmed that it does not. Thoughts anyone?

Does tapping on the 'open' open the app - the 'open' indicates that the iPad thinks that it's already installed.
If tapping 'open' doesn't do anything then try closing the App Store app via the iPad's taskbar and then do a soft-reset and see whether you can download the app when the iPad has restarted. To close the App Store app : double-click the home button to open the taskbar, and then swipe or drag the Camera app's screen from there up and off the top of the screen to close it, and click the home button to close the taskbar.
Soft-reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.

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