Two years after ditching the platform over misinformation spread by its very popular podcasts, Neil Young is returning to Spotify
One of these days, Neil Young is gonna sit down and write a long letter to all the good friends he’s known and tell them he’s returning to Spotify. That day is today. Roughly two years after ditching the streaming giant due to the $200 million the company poured into The Joe Rogan Experience’s disinformation machine, Young posted on his website that he’ll be back on Spotify, even though they don’t do hi-res audio. Ultimately, the reason is pretty simple: The other guys are just as bad.
” Apple, which trumpeted its near-exclusivity to Young’s catalog and trolled Spotify over it, currently hosts music by known anti-vax conspiracy theorists and anti-semites, including new albums from Van Morrison and Kanye West, who later apologized for threatening to go DEFCON 3 on Jewish people before doing a solid year of nauseating bigotry. Additionally, Apple’s podcast platform also hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, which frequently tops the company’s charts despite being a “Spotify exclusive.
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