# For What It's Worth, Neil Young is returning to Spotify

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [March 12, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-what-its-worth-neil-young-is-returning-to-spotify/998778 "2024-03-12T23:49:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-what-its-worth-neil-young-is-returning-to-spotify/998778/21 "2024-03-15T17:20:55Z")

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Thanks! And good luck loading all the songs from your music polls here… 🥴

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-what-its-worth-neil-young-is-returning-to-spotify/998778/22 "2024-03-16T00:00:43Z")

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**BREAKING HAPPY NEWS** : Neil’s Greatest Hits album is now up on Spotify.

More will follow, I presume.

(For what it’s worth)

mmm

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**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-what-its-worth-neil-young-is-returning-to-spotify/998778/23 "2024-03-16T05:29:16Z")

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> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> > [@Loach](#):
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> > It’s the worlds most popular podcast with almost 200 million downloads per month. They are making more money off him than they are paying him. It’s not personal it’s business.
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> Are we sure we know that as a fact? I mean, the argument for something is often “they wouldn’t do it if it weren’t profitable”, and yet they’re clearly doing something wrong.
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> [Chart: How Profitable Is Spotify? | Statista](https://www.statista.com/chart/26773/profitability-development-of-spotify/)

Yeah, since Spotify has now completely abandoned its podcasts-exclusive-to-Spotify business plan, it’s likely they were still losing money on Rogan no matter how much he was moving the subscriber/revenue needle. I mean, that about-face by Spotify is the whole reason why Young has given up and returned to them — after Rogan’s new, non-exclusive deal with Spotify, he is now back to spread his poison on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, etc so it’s pointless for Young to keep up the boycott.

It might not have been personal, but exclusivity deals were apparently bad business. We’ll see if they can make more selling ads on a wider distribution.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-what-its-worth-neil-young-is-returning-to-spotify/998778/24 "2024-03-19T15:06:24Z")

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And…he’s back.

For the most part. There are a few glaring omissions. Hopefully they will appear soon.

mmm

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