Not both.” A day later, Young announced his music would come off the platform. In a letter posted on his website, Young wrote: “ They can have Rogan or Young. He accused the streamer’s star podcaster, Joe Rogan, of spreading vaccine misinformation on his show, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Twitter was littered with announcements from listeners saying they were canceling their subscriptions, and screenshot Spotify app showed a message from its customer support team saying it was “getting a lot of contacts, so it might be slow to respond.” Spotify did not specify how many customers canceled their subscriptions.The streaming giant has faced mounting criticism after singer-songwriter Neil Young followed through on threats to remove his music from Spotify. While few other major artists have spoken out so far, Young’s stance has resonated widely with fans. On Spotify, Mitchell is listed as having 3.7 million monthly listeners, with two of his songs – “Big Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You” – getting over 100 million streams.
Both are Canadians who helped lead the singer-songwriter revolution in Southern California in the late 1960s and 1970s. Young and Mitchell have a long history together. Mitchell is the first major artist to follow Young, after days of speculation and rumors on social media. The scientists wrote in a public letter that the program promoted “several lies about Covid-19 vaccines”.
Robert Malone, a infectious disease expert. He did so after a group of hundreds of scientists, professors and public health experts asked Spotify to remove an episode of Rogan’s Dec. Spotify pulled Young’s music on Wednesday, two days after it published an open letter calling for it to be removed in protest of Spotify’s most popular podcast, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’, which has come under fire for airing false information about coronavirus and vaccines. The debate also highlighted questions about the power artists have to control the distribution of their work, and the ever thorny issue of freedom of expression online. His statement is fueling a small but growing revolt against Spotify, with few major artists speaking out but fans commenting widely on social media. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people’s lives,” she wrote. Mitchell, an esteemed singer-songwriter of songs like ‘Big Yellow Taxi,’ and whose landmark album ‘Blue’ just celebrated its 50th anniversary, posted a brief statement on her website on Friday saying she would be retiring her music. Joni Mitchell said on Friday she would remove her music from Spotify, joining Neil Young in his protest against the streaming service for its role in providing a platform for misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine.
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