'The worry is that this doesn't end what's been an nightmare situation for Spotify.' 'The worry from an investor perspective is that it cascades into more artists potentially pulling their music and following the path of Neil Young,' said Daniel Ives, a managing director with Wedbush Securities. On Monday, key people leading the popular science podcast 'Science Vs' wrote a letter to Spotify Chief Executive Daniel Ek, saying the company's support of Rogan's podcast felt like ' a slap in the face.' And on Tuesday, two more music artists, Graham Nash and India Arie, left Spotify. Still, the controversy isn't going away as Spotify continues to face scrutiny, from inside and outside the company, over its policies about misinformation. Spotify and Rogan issued responses to the controversy on Sunday, quelling some of the concerns raised about podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19 with guests who have been largely discredited by the medical community. Major pop stars did not quit Spotify, and app analytics data indicates Young's protest did not diminish new signups. 'This was, 'Thanks, Neil.''Īlthough smaller rival streaming services received a boost from fans of Young and other artists who joined his protest, the effect of the boycott on Spotify has been minimal so far, analysts said. The post Neil Young’s Music Pulled From Spotify Following His Joe Rogan Ultimatum appeared first on SPIN.'Sometimes you see things and you wonder what caused it,' Mackta said. Signing off, the rocker wrote “I sincerely hope that other artists and record companies will move off the SPOTIFY platform and stop supporting SPOTIFY’s deadly misinformation about COVID.”

“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. He said that he was told that he didn’t contractually have control to remove his music, but Warner Music supported his decision. Saying that the platform represents 60% of his streaming income, Young thanked his label for standing by him and explained his reasons for making the decision. “All of my music is available on SPOTIFY, being sold to these young people, people who believe what they are hearing because it is on SPOTIFY, and people like me are supporting SPOTIFY by presenting my music there,” Young wrote.

Young explained his decision in another post on his website. SPIN has reached out to Young’s representative for comment. 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 since the start of the pandemic. “With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users,” a rep for Spotify told SPIN.

Now, as the Wall Street Journal reports, the streaming giant is in the process of removing Young’s music from its platform.

In the now-deleted letter, he wrote, “Rogan or Young. On Monday, in an open letter posted then removed from his Neil Young Archives website, the veteran rocker expressed his dismay at the outspoken podcaster spreading “disinformation” about COVID-19. Two days after vowing that Spotify would have to choose between him and podcaster Joe Rogan, Neil Young has yanked his music from the platform.

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