Neil Younger is again on Spotify after boycotting the platform over two years in the past, he mentioned in a brand new blog post. The Canadian singer ditched the platform over vaccine misinformation on the Joe Rogan podcast, later saying he was fed up with Spotify’s “shitty” sound high quality anyway.
Younger returned as a result of Rogan’s podcast is now not unique on Spotify. “My resolution comes as music companies Apple and Amazon have began serving the identical disinformation podcast options I had opposed at Spotify,” he mentioned, with out particularly mentioning the Joe Rogan Experience.
There is not any manner he might additionally pull his catalog from Apple Music and Amazon as effectively, he added, “as a result of my music would have little or no streaming outlet to music lovers in any respect” if he did. Younger additionally expressed hope that Spotify would enhance its sound high quality, whereas shouting out Quobuz and Tidal for presenting his songs in high-res.
“Spotify, you are able to do it! Actually be #1 in all methods. You have got the music and listeners!!!! Begin with a restricted Hello res tier and construct from there!” he wrote. (Spotify did announce that it will launch a HiFi tier manner again in early 2021, however it has but to truly accomplish that.)
Fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell joined Younger within the boycott, and her music remains to be lacking from the platform. Each had cause to be incensed in regards to the vaccine misinformation on Rogan’s present as each had been victims of polio — a illness that was wiped out in North America due to vaccines.
It is laborious to say how Younger’s boycott affected Spotify, however it actually impacted his funds. Final yr, Billboard estimated that pulling his songs from Spotify price him roughly $300,000 in misplaced recorded music and publishing royalties.