The day after news of his ultimatum to Spotify broke, his total streams rose dramatically from 619,000 to 860,000, and the day after that, sharply again to 1,005,000 - but some of those listens were presumably on Spotify, which hadn’t yet removed all his music from the service. 24, his daily on-demand streams in both audio and visual formats were tallying somewhere between a low of 550,000 and a high of 715,000, usually reliably landing in the 600,000s each day. Prior to Young first making noise about wanting off Spotify on Jan.

Variety looked at numbers provided by MRC Data since the beginning of the year to look at trends for Young’s music before, during and since the peak of the controversy.

Merck Mercuriadis, whose Hipgnosis Songs Fund had acquired half of the rights to Young’s publishing catalog, said in an interview with Bloomberg published Tuesday that “the interesting thing about Neil is that his consumption has gone up in the two weeks since he came off the service,” and that “we’re at 38% up in streaming alone.” But the full range of data is a little more complicated than that.

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