Spotify Removes Neil Young's Music After Joe Rogan Showdown

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Neil Young pulled no punches in a blistering open letter to
Spotify posted Wednesday. He accused the company of knowingly
profiting off misinformation about COVID-19 and called it “the
home of life threatening COVID misinformation. Lies being sold
for money.”

The music streaming service has begun removing Young’s music
from its platform after the “Heart of Gold” singer blasted the
company for its deal with Joe Rogan, a podcaster who Young said
promoted “fake information about vaccines” on The Joe Rogan
Experience, the most popular podcast in the world. The Wall
Street Journal first reported the news.

“Spotify has recently become a very damaging force via its
public misinformation and lies about COVID,” Young wrote in a
letter on his website. “I realized I could not continue to
support Spotify’s life threatening misinformation to the music
loving public.”

The move will be a financially damaging one for Young and Warner
Bros., his record label, according to the musician. More than
half of the people who stream his music do so via Spotify.
According to Spotify’s own metrics, his songs enjoy over 6
million monthly listens, and 2.4 million people follow him.

“Thank you WARNER BROTHERS for standing with me and taking the
hit—losing 60% of my world wide streaming income in the name of
Truth,” he wrote.

Spotify responded, “We regret Neil’s decision to remove his
music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon. We want
all the world’s music and audio content to be available to
Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing
both safety for listeners and freedom for creators.”

Rogan has an exclusive deal with Spotify to distribute his show,
signed in May 2020. His contract is reportedly worth $100
million.

Young, who suffered from polio as a child, said that he first
learned of Rogan’s forays into vaccine skepticism after more
than 200 doctors signed an open letter to Spotify pleading for
the company to develop a misinformation policy. In an earlier
letter, Young wrote, “??They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.”

Young wrote in his letter that he knew did not have the legal
authority to withdraw his music from Spotify. He sold a 50
percent stake in his catalogue to a U.K. investment firm last
January. Still, he said, “I announced I was leaving anyway,
because I knew I was.” He thanked his record label for standing
by him in the decision.

Young’s manager Frank Gironda previously told The Daily Beast,
“It’s something that’s really important to Neil. He’s very upset
about this disinformation.” He did not immediately respond to a
request for comment on Wednesday.

Young said he was making the move so that young people tuning
into Rogan’s show, who might be “impressionable and easy to
swing to the wrong side of the truth,” could be protected.

Representatives for Rogan did not immediately respond to a
request for comment on Wednesday.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/spotify-is-removing-neil-youngs-
music-after-showdown-over-joe-rogan-and-coronavirus-vaccine-
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