“We should have clear lines around content and take action when they are crossed, but canceling voices is a slippery slope. From a numbers game, Neil Young has what Spotify notes on their artist page as 6,086,608 monthly listeners, what that means is that among 381 million active users on the platform, just over 6 million people have in their artist playlists a Neil Young song here and there. ![]() "I want to make one point very clear - I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer,” Ek wrote in a letter to Spotify staff. ![]() The service also has vowed to spend $100 million on content from marginalized groups and to place a disclaimer before episodes that discuss COVID-19 and vaccination. Some seem to be backing Neil Young in removing themselves from Spotify. Spotify reportedly paid him $100 million for exclusive rights to distribute his podcast, though the service has removed dozens of "The Joe Rogan Experience" episodes in which Rogan used racist slurs. In response to the furor, Ek said that Spotify has no pans to end its arrangement with Rogan. Spotify's stock had dropped by nearly 25% so far in 2022, even before Young pulled his catalog. Mark Mercuriadis, who owns half of the rights to Young’s catalog, dished the details in a chat with Bloomberg. However, the bold move has actually increased the star’s streaming numbers. ![]() Many artists have likewise called for a boycott of Spotify for a variety of reasons, including its royalty payments to artists, which amount to tiny fractions of a penny per stream. Canadian-American singer Neil Young recently pulled his music from streaming platform Spotify. ![]() Young, a polio survivor, kicked off a small but growing rebellion against the service as artists - including his lifelong friend Joni Mitchell, India Arie and podcasters like Brené Brown and Roxane Gay - withdrew their work as well. Young's new remarks come two weeks after the singer pulled his entire catalog from the streaming service in protest of Rogan's dalliances with vaccine misinformation. Social media users’ claims that Neil Young’s music has returned to Spotify are false.
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