Singer and musician Neil Percival Young has just announced his return to the Spotify platform, while criticizing Apple Music. Two years ago now, the rocker decided to remove all his songs from the most used music application in the world.
Neil Young is a fairly divisive character, who does not hesitate to publicly express what he thinks. He sometimes made unexpected decisions, which even pushed certain artists to do the same. The man’s favorite subjects are audio quality, as well as misinformation.
Audio quality, the fight of a lifetime
Neil Young’s history with streaming services dates back to 2012, when he claimed to have worked with Steve Jobs on a superior audio format. Since then, the man has led a crusade to fight against the poor audio quality of devices or streaming services.
For this reason (according to him), he decides to remove your music from almost all online platforms in 2016just after launching the PonoPlayer. This is a music player that is claimed to provide unmatched audio quality. Unfortunately for Neil, his drive was beaten by the iPhone in a blind test.
Considered a vast deception by some, the PonoPlayer was only sold for 2 years, from spring 2015 to spring 2017. Shortly after this failure, the man again put all of his music online on the different platforms, despite the fact that the sound quality they offered did not suit him. In 2022 Howeverhe leaves Spotify.
He disapproves of Joe Rogan
As soon as Joe Rogan began publishing his podcast on the platform in 2022, Neil Young directly deserted the application, followed by other artists, considering the American presenter as a misinformant. Joe Rogan is considered an iconic figure in combat sports with a significant role in the democratization of UFC and MMA. His podcast is the most listened to in the world with around 11 million listeners per episode. Elon Musk had also gone there and publicly smoked cannabis, a madness for which he quickly paid, because it caused a fall in Tesla’s share price.
In any case, for two years now, the terms “Why Neil Young is not on Spotify» are regularly searched for on the internet, according to Google data. And as said above, it is because of the openness to certain podcasts that he claims can spread disinformation. But Since Apple Music and others now offer similar ones, he decided to return to Spotify.
In an article he states:
My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have begun offering the same misinformation podcast features I opposed at Spotify
Singer and musician Neil Percival Young has just announced his return to the Spotify platform, while criticizing Apple Music. Two years ago now, the rocker decided to remove all his songs from the most used music application in the world.
Neil Young is a fairly divisive character, who does not hesitate to publicly express what he thinks. He sometimes made unexpected decisions, which even pushed certain artists to do the same. The man’s favorite subjects are audio quality, as well as misinformation.
Audio quality, the fight of a lifetime
Neil Young’s history with streaming services dates back to 2012, when he claimed to have worked with Steve Jobs on a superior audio format. Since then, the man has led a crusade to fight against the poor audio quality of devices or streaming services.
For this reason (according to him), he decides to remove your music from almost all online platforms in 2016just after launching the PonoPlayer. This is a music player that is claimed to provide unmatched audio quality. Unfortunately for Neil, his drive was beaten by the iPhone in a blind test.
Considered a vast deception by some, the PonoPlayer was only sold for 2 years, from spring 2015 to spring 2017. Shortly after this failure, the man again put all of his music online on the different platforms, despite the fact that the sound quality they offered did not suit him. In 2022 Howeverhe leaves Spotify.
He disapproves of Joe Rogan
As soon as Joe Rogan began publishing his podcast on the platform in 2022, Neil Young directly deserted the application, followed by other artists, considering the American presenter as a misinformant. Joe Rogan is considered an iconic figure in combat sports with a significant role in the democratization of UFC and MMA. His podcast is the most listened to in the world with around 11 million listeners per episode. Elon Musk had also gone there and publicly smoked cannabis, a madness for which he quickly paid, because it caused a fall in Tesla’s share price.
In any case, for two years now, the terms “Why Neil Young is not on Spotify» are regularly searched for on the internet, according to Google data. And as said above, it is because of the openness to certain podcasts that he claims can spread disinformation. But Since Apple Music and others now offer similar ones, he decided to return to Spotify.
In an article he states:
My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have begun offering the same misinformation podcast features I opposed at Spotify