Joni Mitchell’s music again on Spotify 2 years after boycotting platform

Joni Mitchell’s music is again on Spotify greater than two years after the songwriter pulled it off the platform in protest of different content material accessible on the favored streaming service.

Mitchell herself didn’t launch an official assertion asserting the return to Spotify, however a seek for her content material on the app reveals her full discography is offered to play once more.

Mitchell pulled her music from Spotify in January 2022 in solidarity with fellow Canadian music icon, raised in Winnipeg, Neil Younger, who eliminated his catalog to protest the corporate’s determination to offer controversial podcast host Joe Rogan an unique platform.

Younger had given Spotify an ultimatum over issues Rogan was spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on his present.

Younger introduced earlier this month he was coming again to Spotify, saying on his web site that the identical “disinformation podcast” is now featured on numerous streaming platforms and he can’t depart all of them.

Rogan signed a brand new take care of Spotify in February, which the Wall Road Journal estimated was value as a lot as US$250 million over a number of years.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed on March 23, 2024.

— with recordsdata from The Related Press

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