Neil Young threatens to pull songs off Spotify over Joe Rogan: report

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By Edmund DeMarche | FOXBusiness




Neil Young, the legendary rocker, reportedly posted a letter to his management team that he wanted his music pulled from Spotify because it is providing a platform for popular podcast host Joe Rogan to spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.

Rolling Stone, which first reported on Young’s letter, reported that the post has since been deleted. Young reportedly wrote in the letter that he wants Spotify to "know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform."

"They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young," he reportedly posted. "Not both."

Young wrote that Spotify has a "responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy."

Spotify and reps for Young did not immediately respond to an after-hours email from Fox News.



Rogan, whose wildly successful show is exclusive to Spotify, has become a target of the liberal media over the course of the pandemic.

Last week, a group of advocates, professors, scientists and medical professionals signed an open letter that asked Spotify to "take action against mass-misinformation events" on its platform after the "Joe Rogan Experience" (JRE) podcast irked the group with a "highly controversial episode" interview with Dr. Robert Malone.

It was initially reported by several outlets that "270 doctors" signed the open letter to Spotify, but it has since been discovered that many signees are not medical doctors.

Rolling Stone pointed out that several years ago Young removed most of his music from Spotify because he thought the sound quality was lacking. The magazine said he "ultimately relented."

Fox News' Brian Flood and the Associated Press contributed to this report

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[lost in melb.]

If you don't like Josh Rogan, don't listen to Josh Rogan.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

If you don't like Josh Rogan, don't listen to Josh Rogan.

Who's Josh Rogan?

[Muddy]

Who's Josh Rogan?

Obviously someone Lost does not listen too..

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I think this is a pretty easy call for Spotify. I wonder who makes them more money? Joe Rogan or Neil Young.

[lost in melb.]

Who's Josh Rogan?

That dude.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Anne Steele | Wall Street Journal




Spotify Technology is removing Neil Young’s music, as the folk-rock star isn’t wavering in his objections to Joe Rogan’s podcast.

The "Heart of Gold" and "Harvest Moon" singer earlier this week penned an open letter to his manager and label asking them to remove his music from the service, saying it is spreading fake information about COVID-19 vaccines through Mr. Rogan’s show. "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both," he wrote.

"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," a Spotify spokesman said. The company has detailed content policies in place and has removed over 20,000 Covid-related podcast episodes since the start of the pandemic, he added.

"We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon," he said.

Spotify struck a deal with Mr. Rogan in 2020 worth more than $100 million, according to people familiar with the matter, bringing his popular and lucrative show exclusively to its service.



While the letter has since been removed from Mr. Young’s website, he has been in discussions with his label, Warner Music Group Corp.’s Warner Records, and Spotify since then, and continued to hold his ground, according to people familiar with the matter. The formal request to remove the music was made Wednesday and could take several hours to take effect across Spotify’s service across the world.



Before the removal, Mr. Young had 2.4 million followers and over six million monthly listeners on Spotify.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Since Spotify is the heavyweight in the streaming world, I'm sure that as soon as this hits ol' Neil in the wallet, he will very, very quietly put his songs back on Spotify.

[Griffin]

Another liberal finds out their shit does indeed stink.

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[Hugh_Janus]

get rekt, neil

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By Edmund DeMarche | FOXBusiness


Joe Rogan, the popular podcast host on Spotify, broke his silence Sunday after rocker Neil Young accused his show of peddling misinformation about COVID-19 that led to a public rebuke and the eventual removal of his songs from the streaming service.

Rogan's video post lasted about 10 minutes. He spoke about the challenges of preparing for his shows that are unscripted and free-flowing. He defended his interviews with Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist, and Dr. Robert Malone, an infectious disease specialist, that resulted in some criticism and apparently led to Young's decision to call on his songs being removed from the platform.

Rogan offered some background on his guests and argued that their opinions were worth hearing. McCullough has been widely published and Malone is considered one of the leading experts on mRNA technology, which is used in the Pfizer and Moderna jabs.

He challenged the word "misinformation" given that so much is still being learned about COVID-19. He said Spotify will begin to put a disclaimer at the beginning of these sorts of interviews, and he will also consider following them up with an expert with a different opinion.

"I’m going to do my best, in the future, to balance things out…I’m going to do my best," he said. "But my point of doing this, always, is just to create interesting conversations and ones that I hope people enjoy."

Joni Mitchell has also said that she is seeking to remove all of her music from Spotify in solidarity with Young. Mitchell, who like Young is a California-based songwriter who had much of her success in the 1970s, is the first prominent musician to join Young’s effort.

"I’m very sorry that they feel that way. I don’t want that," Rogan said, pointing out that he’s a Neil Young fan.

Rogan recalled the time he was younger and was scheduled to work security at a Neil Young concert in Mansfield, Mass. He ended up leaving because too many fights were breaking out, and it didn't make sense for him to take a beating for the pay. When he drove off, he remembered blasting Young's "Keep on Rocking in the Free World," and never looked back.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Spotify’s Daniel Ek Panics Over Rock Star Defections: “Personally, there are plenty of individuals and views on Spotify that I disagree with strongly”

by Roger Friedman - January 30, 2022 3:56 pm


Spotify’s Daniel Ek is in panic mode over the defections of rock stars Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren, Peter Frampton and others who are speaking out against the streamer. They’re pulling their music over disinformation being broadcast by right wing podcaster Joe Rogan.

So now Ek says there will be new rules over how the disinformation will be disseminated. Spotify will still allow it, but they’ll tell you it’s wrong up front. So it will be the listeners’ decision to accept fake information. Isn’t that great?


Ek says: “Personally, there are plenty of individuals and views on Spotify that I disagree with strongly.” But he’ll let them stay since he can make money off of them. And that’s what this is about.

Spotify stock price has dropped by $70 since January 3rd.

From Daniel Ek. You’ll note that Ek doesn’t mention the Neil Young situation or any of the musicians by name. But the panic is there between the lines.

A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world. To our very core, we believe that listening is everything. Pick almost any issue and you will find people and opinions on either side of it. Personally, there are plenty of individuals and views on Spotify that I disagree with strongly. We know we have a critical role to play in supporting creator expression while balancing it with the safety of our users. In that role, it is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor while also making sure that there are rules in place and consequences for those who violate them.

You’ve had a lot of questions over the last few days about our platform policies and the lines we have drawn between what is acceptable and what is not. We have had rules in place for many years but admittedly, we haven’t been transparent around the policies that guide our content more broadly. This, in turn, led to questions around their application to serious issues including COVID-19.

Based on the feedback over the last several weeks, it’s become clear to me that we have an obligation to do more to provide balance and access to widely-accepted information from the medical and scientific communities guiding us through this unprecedented time. These issues are incredibly complex. We’ve heard you – especially those from the medical and scientific communities – and are taking the following steps:

Today we are publishing our long-standing Platform Rules. These policies were developed by our internal team in concert with a number of outside experts and are updated regularly to reflect the changing safety landscape. These are rules of the road to guide all of our creators—from those we work with exclusively to those whose work is shared across multiple platforms. You can now find them on our newsroom, and they’ll live permanently on the main Spotify website. They are being localized into various languages to help our users understand how Spotify assesses all content on our platform.

We are working to add a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19. This advisory will direct listeners to our dedicated COVID-19 Hub, a resource that provides easy access to data-driven facts, up-to-date information as shared by scientists, physicians, academics and public health authorities around the world, as well as links to trusted sources. This new effort to combat misinformation will roll out to countries around the world in the coming days. To our knowledge, this content advisory is the first of its kind by a major podcast platform.

We will also begin testing ways to highlight our Platform Rules in our creator and publisher tools to raise awareness around what’s acceptable and help creators understand their accountability for the content they post on our platform. This is in addition to the terms that creators and publishers agree to governing their use of our services.

I want you to know that from the very first days of the pandemic, Spotify has been biased toward action. We launched a variety of educational resources and campaigns to raise awareness and we developed and promoted a global COVID-19 Information Hub. We donated ad inventory to various organizations for vaccine awareness, funds to the World Health Organization and COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) to increase vaccine equity and supported the Go Give One fundraising campaign. And we established a music relief project to support the creative community. While this is not a complete list, I hope it gives you a sense of how seriously we’ve approached the pandemic as a company.

I trust our policies, the research and expertise that inform their development, and our aspiration to apply them in a way that allows for broad debate and discussion, within the lines. We take this seriously and will continue to partner with experts and invest heavily in our platform functionality and product capabilities for the benefit of creators and listeners alike. That doesn’t mean that we always get it right, but we are committed to learning, growing and evolving.

Daniel

[Muddy]

Joni Mitchell sucks anyway.. No real loss.