Neil Young has made peace with Spotify and returns to offer his music after two years of absence

This Tuesday the Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young has announced that he will ask for his music to return to Spotify after two years of it not being available. In 2022 it was the artist himself who requested the removal of his catalogue.

Through an open letter, he asked the platform to remove his music, considering the one present in the original Spotify podcast The Joe Rogan Experiencethey were misinforming about the COVID-19 vaccine.

After Neil Young publicly denounced the situation, Other artists countered his statement and removed their Spotify catalog in protest.. Among them Joni Mitchell, Indie and Neil’s bandmates, David Crosby, Stephen Stills AND Graham Nash.

Although the catalog of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (the band the musician was part of) had already returned to Spotify, Neil Young’s solo works are not yet available.

Through a post on his official website, the legendary musician informed his fans that the podcast that started the dispute is no longer exclusive to Spotify, but is now available on all other platforms, such as Apple Music and Amazon Music .

That’s why he reported it His intention is to bring his solo catalog back to Spotify. “I made the decision when the Apple and Amazon music services began offering the same misinformation podcasts that I had opposed on Spotify,” Young wrote in Neil Young Archiveshis official page.

Why don’t you leave all platforms?

The first questions that arose after the statement highlighted Neil Young’s lack of commitment to the cause he championed so much. His fans wondered why the musician hadn’t taken a more radical measure of force.withdrawing from all platforms.

The Canadian already has years of career and with experience comes the ability to anticipate this type of criticism, he took it upon himself to resolve this issue in his statement.

“I can’t leave Apple and Amazon, as I did with Spotify, because my songs would have very little streaming output for music lovers, so I returned to Spotify, sincerely hoping that Spotify’s sound quality will improve.” and people can do it. listen and feel all the music the way we made it,” Young said.

Moreover, He suggested his fans to listen to his music on Qobuz and Tidalplatforms where in addition to being available they can reproduce it in “high resolution”, unlike the quality offered by the most popular ones, according to the artist.

“I want the millions of Spotify users to enjoy my music. Now it will be there for you, except for the full sound we’ve created,” Young continued, highlighting complaints about the quality at which songs can be played on Spotify.

To conclude, he left a message from the platform, asking them to improve their services. “I hope Spotify uses high resolution as the answer, and which offers music to everyone. Spotify, you can do it. Always be number one in everything. You have the music and the listeners,” the Canadian artist wrote on her page, to close his open letter.

Neil Young has always been an advocate of hi-res music. He also launched his own platform to make downloads of this quality possible, but had to close it in 2015.

Spotify, for its part, had announced that it would implement this technology in 2021, but the project never materialized. According to some media reports, they will do so this year.

So far, Young’s catalog has not returned to the platform and users await its restoration. It is estimated that Young lost around $300 million in royalties during his two-year absence from Spotify.