“When you have an opportunity to present an iconic artist still at the height of his creativity, you don’t hesitate to do it, again,” Steve Blatter, SiriusXM senior vice president and general manager of music programming, said of the decision. The hashtag “#CancelSpotify” trended among Young fans on Twitter Thursday evening (January 27th), and other artists and streaming platforms joined the conversation as well.Īpple Music, TIDAL, Deezer, and Qobuz made sure to remind fans that they still offered Young’s music, while SiriusXM relaunched Neil Young Radio.
The letter inspired Young to leave the service this week and Mitchell also linked to it in her own message.Spotify’s decision to remove Neil Young’s catalog from the platform in order to keep peddling COVID misinformation via podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience has sparked quite a lot of online discourse about free speech, streaming, and the best way to support artists. Robert Malone, a virologist banned from Twitter for spreading misinformation about COVID-19, prompted hundreds of medical professionals to sign onto an open letter slamming Spotify for profiting off of putting lives at risk as the pandemic rages on. Rogan regularly spotlights guests who peddle misinformation and makes no effort to fact-check their claims. Rogan’s show also happens to be the world’s most popular podcast, bringing in more than an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, with multiple episodes hitting Spotify each week. In recent years, Rogan and a number of his featured guests have openly expressed transphobia, discouraged his listeners from wearing face masks to reduce Covid-19 transmission because masks are “for bitches,” and broadly spread doubt about vaccines to his massive audience. Rogan’s podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, is no stranger to controversy. And unlike Young, she didn’t have an existing beef with the service over its stream quality. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”Īs one of the world’s most famous and most well-respected living musicians, Mitchell’s decision to abandon Spotify over Rogan is bound to turn some heads. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell wrote. “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. In a post to her website on Friday, Joni Mitchell announced that she would “stand with Neil Young” and remove her catalogue from the streaming platform. Spotify’s Joe Rogan headache is about to get a lot worse.Įarlier this week, musician Neil Young announced that he would pull his music from the streaming service to protest Spotify’s relationship with Joe Rogan, who the company brought under its wing in an exclusive $100 million deal two years ago.
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