Neil Young returns to ‘low res’ streamer Spotify after Joe Rogan boycott
NY Post
Folk-rock legend Neil Young announced his return to Spotify — more than two years after the “Ohio” singer pulled his catalogue because he refused to be on the same platform as Joe Rogan.
Young, 78, and several other artists had joined a boycott of Spotify after accusing the popular podcaster — and the platform’s highest-paid star — of spreading false information about the COVID-19 vaccines.
In a notice shared to The Neil Young Archives on Tuesday, the “Heart of Gold” singer said that his decision to return to Spotify “comes as music services Apple and Amazon started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at SPOTIFY.”
Young didn’t explicitly name Rogan in the announcement, titled “My Return to Low Res Spotify.”
“I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all, so I have returned to Spotify,” he wrote.
Spotify recently locked Rogan into another “multiyear” contract reportedly worth as much as $250 million.
