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\n\tA week after her old friend Neil Young<\/a>\u2018s return to Spotify, Joni Mitchell<\/a>\u2018s catalog has been restored to the streaming service. Mitchell pulled her music<\/a> from Spotify in early 2022 in solidarity with Young over their concerns about the vaccine and COVID-19 misinformation being spread on the platform\u2019s popular Joe Rogan Experience<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n \n\tThough Mitchell, 80, had not commented on her music\u2019s return to Spotify at press time, in a note on her official website posted at the time of the boycott she explained, \u201cI\u2019ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLast week, Young said in a post on his Archives site<\/a> that the end of Spotify\u2019s exclusive deal with Rogan led to the restoration of his music to the service. \u201cMy decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at Spotify,\u201d Young\u2019s post read \u2013 in a clear reference to the Rogan podcast, though he never mentioned the show, or its host, by name. Since last month, the Rogan podcast has been available on a variety of platform, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and YouTube.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI 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,\u201d Young explained about his turnabout.<\/p>\n \n\tAt the time of Mitchell\u2019s boycott not all of her music was actually removed from Spotify. While such iconic titles as 1970\u2019s Ladies of the Canyon<\/em>, 1971\u2019s Blue<\/em> and 1974\u2019s Court and Spark<\/em> went away during the pull-out, her four Geffen Records albums from the 1980s and early 1990s \u2014 Wild Things Run Fast<\/em>\u00a0(1982),\u00a0Dog Eat Dog<\/em>\u00a0(1985),\u00a0Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm<\/em>\u00a0(1988) and\u00a0Night Ride Home<\/em>\u00a0(1991) \u2014 were still available. In fact, Billboard<\/em> reported at the time that in the first four days after the wider catalog removal, songs from Mitchell\u2019s Geffen albums across all streaming services saw at 484% increase<\/a> in on-demand streaming activity in the U.S.<\/p>\n \n\tYoung\u2019s original 2022 boycott was also supported by several other artists, including his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, as well as India.Arie, though CSN\/CSN&Y and Arie\u2019s music were back on the service in short order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n