Joni Mitchell is back on Spotify just like Neil Young — because Joe Rogan isn’t going anywhere

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Two years aft respective legendary musicians broke with Spotify successful protestation implicit arguable remarks made connected podcaster Joe Rogan’s show, astir person present returned to the euphony work — with Joni Mitchell arsenic the latest example. As noted by The New York Times, respective of the singer-songwriter’s astir pivotal albums, including Blue, are erstwhile again disposable to watercourse connected Spotify. Mitchell’s representatives haven’t offered immoderate remark connected her quiescent comeback.

“Irresponsible radical are spreading lies that are costing radical their lives,” Mitchell wrote successful 2022 amid an uproar directed astatine Rogan for misinformation that was repeated connected his podcast.

Neil Young, the instrumentalist who was astir vocal successful his disapproval of comments connected The Joe Rogan Experience related to the covid-19 vaccines, also restored his music to the starring subscription euphony work earlier this month. In 2022, Young said helium felt “better” aft ditching Spotify and blasted the work for its “shitty” dependable quality. But the institution hasn’t done much to heighten its audio since then, which is wherefore Young continues to notation to it arsenic “low res.”

His rationale for returning seems to beryllium this: different euphony apps are also present streaming those aforesaid podcasts that helium was primitively truthful frustrated astir — Young inactive refrains from mentioning Rogan by sanction — and helium can’t successful bully conscience discontinue all of them and rob his fans of his catalog everywhere.

What’s present definite is that Joe Rogan isn’t leaving Spotify anytime soon; the 2 sides conscionable renewed their woody past month, and Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman lone yesterday illustrated Rogan’s grip implicit the podcast industry. The Joe Rogan Experience has a wholly antithetic level of popularity than immoderate different podcast being made contiguous — and it’s not close. Rogan’s programme has 14.5 cardinal followers connected Spotify, with the second-place TED Talks Daily tallying 5 million.

So, the musicians had their say, and portion Joe Rogan made it done the contention relatively unfazed, I’m definite some radical felt Mitchell’s absence. Blue is an all-timer of an album, and Spotify had to spell without it for a mates years. It’s bully for euphony lovers everyplace that it’s present backmost connected the service.