{"id":7215,"date":"2022-01-27T11:18:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/spotify-starts-removing-neil-youngs-music-amid-joe-rogan-vaccine-misinformation-row\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:18:42","slug":"spotify-starts-removing-neil-youngs-music-amid-joe-rogan-vaccine-misinformation-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/spotify-starts-removing-neil-youngs-music-amid-joe-rogan-vaccine-misinformation-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify starts removing Neil Young’s music amid Joe Rogan ‘vaccine misinformation’ row"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A hot potato:<\/strong> In the battle between Neil Young and Joe Rogan, it seems the latter has come out on top. Young earlier this week warned Spotify that if it didn\u2019t drop Rogan\u2019s podcasts, the singer wanted his music removed from the platform\u2014he got his wish. <\/p>\n

Young wrote an open letter<\/a> to his manager Frank Gironda, and Tom Corson, co-chairman and chief operating officer of Warner Records, on Tuesday. Part of the letter, which mentioned Rogan specifically, read: \u201cI am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines \u2013 potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey [Spotify] can have Rogan or Young. Not both,\u201d the now-deleted letter warned.<\/p>\n

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It took two days for Spotify to choose between the two men. Neil Young might enjoy legend status thanks to a career reaching back to the 1960s, several Grammy awards, and being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. But the Joe Rogan Experience attracts around 11 million listeners per episode, making it the world\u2019s largest podcast, and the music streaming service paid over $100 million<\/a> to bring it to Spotify in 2020, where it soon became an exclusive show. All of which likely made its decision to side with Rogan a lot easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want all the world\u2019s 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,\u201d a Spotify spokesperson told the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, adding that the company has removed over 20,000 Covid-related podcast episodes since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe regret Neil\u2019s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young said in a follow up letter that while Spotify represented 60 percent of his streaming revenue globally, amounting to \u201ca huge loss for [his] record company to absorb,\u201d he wanted his music removed because he \u201ccould not continue to support Spotify\u2019s life threatening misinformation to the music loving public.\u201d<\/p>\n

An episode of the JRE in which Rogan hosted Robert Malone, a virologist involved in developing mRNA vaccine technology who was suspended from Twitter for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories about Covid-19, resulted in 270 medical professionals writing an open letter<\/a> to Spotify calling for it to \u201cmitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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