Crosby, Stills & Nash return to Spotify after Joe Rogan protest

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After abandoning the platform in protest of Joe Rogan, Crosby, Stills, and Nash are back. The group will give streaming profits to charity for at least a month.

The musicians return to Spotify marks a quiet and relatively unglamorous end to their protest, which has largely had the effect of increasing Rogan's subscriber numbers. Crosby, Stills & Nash announced in February that they would be pulling their music out of solidarity with Neil Young, who was upset with the company for supporting Rogan.

Young wrote in a post that he was doing this because he believed that the misinformation being spread by them could be fatal.

Crosby, Stills & Nash are coming back, but Young hasn't returned to the service. Some of the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young songs are not available to stream on the platform, as well as some of the Young songs.

Here is what their 1970 album looks like on the streaming service.

Due to the unavailability of Young and Mitchell's music, only six of the album's 10 tracks can be played.

Crosby, Stills & Nash said back in February that they wouldn't bring their music back to the streaming service until real action was taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce. The group doesn't appear to have updated their statement to say whether or not changes have been made.

Since the protests began, there have been some small changes made to the service. Daniel Ek promised to spend $100 million on content from marginalized groups, the company started labeling podcasts that discuss COVID-19, and the company published its content rules for the first time.

At least one high-profile pair of content creators has been damaged by the company. The company worked with the couple's production company to smooth things over after they criticized the company.