Sylvan Esso Returns Music to Spotify After Boycott

Sylvan Esso has returned their music catalog to Spotify following a boycott that lasted for one year. The group had originally removed their music from the platform in September 2025 after stating that the streaming service directly funded war machines. Despite the decision to remove their past work from the service, Sylvan Esso released their fifth album, titled Ow ∞, last week through the label Psychic Hotline.

Amelia Meath addressed the situation in a recently published video, where she expressed that the ongoing boycott caused financial problems for the band. Meath stated in the video that 82 percent of all digital music streams occurred through Spotify. Sylvan Esso was not the only act to take their music off the service during that period, as King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard also pulled their music from the streaming platform last year.

In additional developments concerning Spotify, Daniel Ek announced that he will step down from his position as CEO on January 1, 2026. In 2024, Spotify officially ended the practice of generating revenue from songs that have fewer than 1,000 streams.