Simply days after Neil Younger’s surprising return to Spotify, Joni Mitchell has additionally seen her music reappear on the streaming platform.
This transfer comes greater than two years after each artists eliminated their catalogs from Spotify in protest of what they perceived because the platform’s amplification of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Younger introduced in January 2022 that he was pulling his music from the streaming platform over its internet hosting of the Joe Rogan Expertise podcast.
Mitchell adopted Neil Younger’s lead and introduced a couple of days later that her music would even be pulled from the platform.
“Irresponsible individuals are spreading lies which might be costing folks their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Younger and the worldwide scientific and medical communities on this subject,” Mitchell wrote in a weblog submit on the time.
Whereas Spotify acknowledged the significance of content material moderation, CEO Daniel Ek on the time maintained the corporate’s dedication to welcome views from totally different folks and opinions on both facet of points.
“A decade in the past, we created Spotify to allow the work of creators all over the world to be heard and loved by listeners all over the world,” Ek wrote in a weblog submit two days after Mitchell introduced that she was pulling her music from the platform.
“Personally, there are many people and views on Spotify that I disagree with strongly… you will need to me that we don’t tackle the place of being content material censor whereas additionally ensuring that there are guidelines in place and penalties for many who violate them,” Spotify’s chief added.
Now, Mitchell’s classics comparable to A Case of You and California from her 1971 album Blue are again on Spotify.
Mitchell hasn’t but launched a press release in regards to the reversal. Spotify has additionally remained tight-lipped on the matter.
For Younger, his choice arrived as The Joe Rogan Expertise podcast is now not unique to Spotify, and is now obtainable on quite a few streaming platforms. Younger acknowledged that his earlier boycott of Spotify particularly is now not justified.
“My choice comes as music providers Apple and Amazon have began serving the identical disinformation podcast options I had opposed at Spotify,” Younger wrote.
“I can’t simply depart Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, as a result of my music would have little or no streaming outlet to music lovers in any respect, so I’ve returned to Spotify, in honest hopes that Spotify sound high quality will enhance and folks will be capable to hear and really feel all of the music as we made it.”
Spotify nonetheless has but to supply hi-res lossless audio, not like its rivals like Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer and TIDAL.
The return of Mitchell’s music to Spotify follows the long-lasting artist’s efficiency of Each Sides Now on the 66th Annual Grammy Awards with musicians Brandi Carlile, Allison Russell, Lucius, Jacob Collier, Blake Mills and SistaStrings. Mitchell additionally gained a Grammy for Finest People Album for Joni Mitchell At Newport [Live].
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