Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in returning her music to Spotify

Joni Mitchell’s music has returned to Spotify more than two years after she joined Neil Young in leaving the platform to protest Spotify’s anti-vax content.

Mitchell’s meteoric homecoming comes one week after Young announced that he would be returning his music to the platform following their dissolution of the exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan’s podcast, which scientists and healthcare professionals accused of spreading misinformation regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Joe Rogan Experience podcast was made available on alternative streaming platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Youtube and Amazon Music in February.

“My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at Spotify,” Young wrote of his decision. “I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all, so I have returned to Spotify.” Mitchell has made no comment on her return.

With a renewed phase in her career well underway, Mitchell continues to move fans with live performances, making a legendary debut on the Grammys stage last month and performing a cover version of ‘I’m Still Standing’ alongside Brandi Carlile and Annie Lennox at the Gerswhin prize concert in honour of Elton John and Bernie Taupin earlier this week.