Crosby, Stills & Nash BACK on Spotify after failed Joe Rogan boycott

According to Billboard, the group’s music returned as of Saturday. CSN will reportedly donate proceeds from streams to Covid-19 charities for at least one month.

In February, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash joined ex-bandmate Neil Young and others to announce they were pulling their music from the platform due to Rogan’s podcast which offered ideas about the Covid-19 pandemic that were different than the official narrative.

The group, which has not been active since 2015, accused Rogan spreading "dangerous disinformation" about the Covid-19 pandemic through his podcast.

At the time, the band said in a statement, "While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences. Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music — or the music we made together — to be on the same platform."

In response to the boycott, Rogan threatened to quit Spotify, which would have meant leaving a $200 million deal on the table, if he were asked to self-censor.

During a conversation with MMA fighter Josh Barnett about podcast industry Rogan said, "I will quit. If it gets to a point that I can’t do it anymore, where I have to do it in some sort of weird way where I walk on eggshells and mind my p’s and q’s, f*ck that!"

"There’s more people pouring over it but it’s the same thing. I do it the same way," Rogan added. "If I become something different because it grew bigger, I will quit."

Rogan also commented that his job "…requires sincerity; without it, this show doesn’t have any success."

In response to the backlash, Spotify placed a content advisory on some of Rogan’s episodes related to COVID-19 and removed 113 episodes of Rogan’s podcast.