If you've been thinking about leaving Spotify since Neil Young and Joni Mitchell demanded their songs be removed from the platform in protest at Joe Rogan's antivax podcast, now's a good time.

The Harvest Moon

singer

announced that he was offering four months of free subscription to the competition (more precisely, Amazon Music) to anyone who also wanted to change their creamery.

“Anyone looking for my music can easily go to AMAZON MUSIC and click here.

All new listeners will get four months free (…) My music is also available in very high quality at http://neilyoungarchives.com.

Love the Earth, and be at peace, Neil,” he tweeted.

Clearly, Amazon felt there was an opportunity to recover some market share from Spotify, and was quick to launch this offer by joining forces with the man who is becoming a symbol of anti-Spotify discontent.

Free fall

We have to believe that the "movement" is more extensive than one might imagine, since in the days following the controversy, Spotify fell by nearly $ 2 billion in market value, according to

Variety

.

If Neil Young's own situation seems anecdotal at first glance, the market has undoubtedly been worried by the fact that more and more artists are complaining not only about Spotify's editorial choices, but also about the low income generated by the service. for musicians.

In other words, leaving the platform would not cause them to lose much!

Spotify tried to react by announcing that a message would accompany certain problematic podcasts to indicate that the comments relayed do not reflect the scientific consensus.

Joe Rogan, for his part, reacted publicly to the controversy.

“I'm really sorry that they (Neil Young and Joni Mitchell) feel like that.

That's definitely not what I want.

I'm a fan of Neil Young, I've always been a fan of Neil Young”, he explained, before assuring that he would try to “do better”.

Joe Rogan says, among other things, on his podcast, that young people do not need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 because they are "in good health".

As the Nantes University Hospital reminds us, a young person, even in good health, has “more risk of developing a serious heart condition during a Covid-19 disease than of having a serious adverse effect by being vaccinated.

The vaccine also serves to protect against the transmission of the virus to those around him, among whom there may be people who are not immunized and at risk of a serious form.

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