A Spotify spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the company agreed to remove Young's work, though it was still accessible to users Wednesday afternoon. Spotify said it regrets Young's decision but hopes"to welcome him back soon."
"We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users," the streaming service said."With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. 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."
The “Heart of Gold” singer's catalog spans more than five decades, from his 1969 self-titled album to his most recent record, 2021's"Barn." A representative for Young did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Young called out"The Joe Rogan Experience" in his letter and the danger of Spotify enabling the distribution of potentially fatal misinformation.
“With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify ... has tremendous influence,” Young said. “Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform.”
Good I would rather listen to Rogan
I don’t get who gives more than zero fucks about Joe Rogan? Isn’t he that mildly amusing host from Fear Factor back in the day? Is he really someone that anyone would care about? I don’t get it.
OMG LOLOLOL buy the ticket, take the ride! 🇺🇸
tells you all you need to know about Spotify, it’s all about the money not the music…
Cancel Spotify
Neil Young is a living legend!
AnnCoulter Neil loses. Spotify figured nobody can tell us what to list. You're not the boss of me. Less playtime so Neil Young will now slowly slip into oblivion.
Thereby reducing the income stream from songs' royalties which he sold 50% to an investment company, Hipgnosis. Potential law suit in the making.
AnnCoulter LOL oh well 🤷🏻♂️
Didn’t he sell his music catalog? If so, he’s not going to loose money. I hope the buyer is happy.
AnnCoulter Like your music, but bye Neil…
Rogan has 11 mil listeners, most listened to podcast by no one I know. Spotify is making a mistake here choosing $$ and misinformation. Could blowback on them pretty bad if someone were to sue bc of Joe's comments.
Joe Biden should threaten to resign as president unless Joe Rogan is removed from Spotify.
Old man, look at yourself.
Neil Young… you don’t need Spotify. And I don’t need Spotify either.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 love seeing people melt
Phuk Rogan
go woke, go broke
Lost in space Neil Y.
Wasn't a Neil Young fan but now I am!!!
Who has Spotify?
Thank you TedNugent we respect u &❤️UR music. beyond disappointed by Spotify & have no use for a platform that allows misinformation a virus that’s killed over 5.62 million people ww. 871k in the US. Not to mention those who have long term Covid effects. It’s killing people
Just deleted Spotify.
AnnCoulter Who the hell is Neil Young?
Dumping Spotify
Opps looks like Mr. Young isn't as influential as he thought.
Politics aside, 100 years from now people will still be listening to Neil Young. Can’t say the same about Rogan. “Long may you run” Neil!
Time to boycott Spotify!
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