“We want creators to create,” Daniel Ek, the chief executive and co-founder of Spotify, told The Financial Times at the time. Rogan signed an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify in 2020 that has been reported to be worth $100 million, the Times reported. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.”
“We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators,” a Spotify spokesman told the Times and The Washington Post in a statement. “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. > Neil Young to Spotify: Get rid of Joe Rogan’s podcast or I pull my music Robert Malone, an infectious-disease expert, promoted “several falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines,” according to the group’s public letter, which was issued on Jan.
31, 2021 episode of Rogan’s show, according to the newspaper. Young’s criticism of Rogan, Spotify’s most popular podcast host, came after a group of scientists, professors and public health experts asked Spotify to remove a Dec. Young’s most popular songs as a solo artist, like “Heart of Gold,” “Harvest Moon,” “Like a Hurricane” and “Old Man,” have received extensive airtime on the radio for decades and have attracted millions of streams on Spotify, The New York Times reported.īefore the removal, Young had 2.4 million followers and more than 6 six million monthly listeners on Spotify, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“Yet my friends at Warner Brothers Reprise stood with me, recognizing the threat the COVID misinformation on Spotify posed to the world - particularly for our young people who think everything they hear on Spotify is true. “Spotify represents 60% of the streaming of my music to listeners around the world, almost every record I have ever released is available - my life’s music - a huge loss for my record company to absorb,” Young wrote on his website. Spotify has begun removing Neil Young’s music from its platform, the company said on Wednesday, two days after the star posted a public letter calling on Spotify to choose between him and Joe Rogan, who has been accused of spreading vaccine disinformation.
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