Joe Exotic’s Tiger King songs a hit on Spotify

One of the quite a few odd facet tales to come back out of hit Netflix documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness was Joe Exotic’s, uh, musical profession. The animal park proprietor wished to be a nation music star and made quite a few music movies, however musician Vince Johnson told Vanity Fair he and the late Danny Clinton have been the actual performers. The present’s administrators, Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, told the L.A. Times that a fact-checker found Joe did sing considerably on sure songs, so that they selected to not name him out on it within the present.

It will not be Joe himself singing, however that hasn’t stopped Spotify from including a number of of Joe’s songs to its musical streaming service. The music I Saw a Tiger was added to Spotify on March 30, a Spotify consultant mentioned in a assertion, “following a clamoring from followers to get it added to the platform.” Upon checking Monday, we noticed quite a few different Joe Exotic songs obtainable.

And individuals are really listening. The music service notes that in lower than two weeks, Joe Exotic’s music discovered listeners in all 79 of Spotify’s world markets. 

While the US, with its massive inhabitants, has the most important sheer variety of listeners, Denmark is streaming I Saw a Tiger at a increased charge than another nation, adopted by the UK, Ireland after which Iceland. Within the US itself, North Dakota, Mississippi and Montana are the highest three states streaming the music.

“As of (April 13), Joe Exotic is averaging an 18% each day improve in its share of streams,” the Spotify assertion mentioned. And Joe’s followers are younger, with listeners aged 25-29 consuming his music on the highest charge.

Other Joe Exotic songs now obtainable on Spotify embrace the unnerving Here Kitty Kitty, which is all about Joe’s concept that rival Carole Baskin fed her lacking second husband, Don Lewis, to her tigers. Baskin has denied having something to do with Lewis’ disappearance. “I by no means threatened (Lewis) and I definitely had nothing to do along with his disappearance,” Baskin says in a assertion on her web site.

Spotify is not the one place to get Joe’s music. Netflix has added a singalong version of I Saw a Tiger, full with lyrics and a cute little tiger head bopping alongside, karaoke-screen-style, to point out you when to sing what.