"We want all the world's music and audio content to be available to Spotify users,” the statement continued. Spotify said it “regrets” the move and hopes Young returns to the platform soon. Search for Neil Young on Spotify today and you will find just a handful of songs culled from soundtracks and compilations, alongside one obscure acoustic live album. He is a vintage, analogue star in a digital world. The majority of his older fanbase probably already own all the Neil Young albums they really like on vinyl and CD, and his entire back catalogue only accrues around six million monthly Spotify listeners. Young may be a towering singer-songwriter and band leader renowned around the world as one of the all-time-greats of rock culture, but he cannot compete with those numbers.
The provocative American comedian has the most popular podcast on Spotify, that is reportedly streamed or downloaded 200 million times a month (or so the hyperbolic Rogan himself claims, without published evidence). After all, the streaming platform invested $100 million to license Rogan’s controversial show in 2020. Spotify chose Rogan, as I am sure Young knew they would. Incensed by what he perceived as “fake information” with an anti-vaccination bias on Joe Rogan’s hugely popular Spotify podcast, the 76-year-old veteran rock star told his manager he wanted his music removed from the platform.
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