Spotify Pulls Neil Young's Music After Singer Gave Ultimatum Over Joe Rogan's COVID 'Disinformation'

Yahoo! Entertainment ^ | Wed, January 26, 2022, 9:08 PM | Katie Campione

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Neil Young's discography will no longer be available on Spotify.

The musician, 76, gave the music streaming platform an ultimatum earlier this week between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast. On Wednesday, Spotify confirmed that it would be removing his songs for the time being.

"We want all the world's music and audio content to be available to Spotify users," a spokesperson for Spotify said in a statement to PEOPLE on Wednesday. "With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. We have detailed content policies in place and we've removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. We regret Neil's decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon."

In an open letter shared to his website on Monday that appears to have since been deleted, Young took a stand against COVID misinformation that he said was being disseminated in Rogan's podcast.

"I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them," he wrote, according to Rolling Stone and Variety. "Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule."

[laplata]

Lol! Good one.

[Mr. Mojo]

A young Neil never would’ve imagined that one day he’d Mr. Establishment.

[TigersEye]

:)

[canuck_conservative]

Haven’t the censoring leftists noticed?

The more they complain about Joe Rogan and try to silence him, the more free publicity they give to him, the more they make people aware of what he does

I never even heard of him before, but after all these stories, I know about him now ... probably the same situation for a lot of other people too

[mylife]

I dont care what they say about him, rock on Neil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QJ-sK8110I

[dainbramaged]

A couple good tunes many decades ago for Neil. His self importance doesn’t surprise me, it’s just so predictable.

[mylife]

AND SKNYED IS DEAd

[mylife]

dey is deAD

[mylife]

LIKE A SOUTRHERN MAN?

[TigersEye]

Neil needs to remake This Note's For You.

This Note's For Fauci

Ain't singin' for Pepsi
Ain't singin' for Mack's
I don't sing for nobody
Unless it's shillin' for vax
This note's for Big Pharma.

Ain't singin' for Miller
Don't sing for Bud
Won't sing for most politicians
Ain't singin' for Spuds
This note's for Fauci.

[mylife]

AMEN

[mylife]

oddly his kid is autistic and they blame that on vax

I know he loves his kid

[TigersEye]

Over the Decades I have probably bought a third of his catalog.
Which, as you probably know, is no small number of albums.

But when it comes to politics (and medicine) Neil should probably leave it On The Beach. :)

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3-hrtnrZrI

[FrankRizzo890]

Or, as I changed it today:

I hope Neil Young will remember, Spotify don’t need him around anyhow.

[dayglored]

Neil Young has the poorest impulse control of anyone in the music scene. Lots of musicians have gone off the rails at one time or another, but Neil has been screwing up his career and those around him since the days of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. That's over 50 years of this kind of crapola.

So this latest manifestly stupid, self-defeating burst of arrogance is no surprise, it's right in character.

[minnesota_bound]

I wonder how many 10’s of millions of people listen everyday to Joe Rogan vs the maybe dozens of drug addled people listen to Neil Young say in a week?

[period end of story]

It appears he has maintained control of his copyrights - most musicians couldn’t do this.

After Dylan, and Springsteen, he'll probably take the money and run.

[PistolPaknMama]

That’s the first thing I thought of when I heard about this yesterday morning! lol Now, git!!

[mylife]

yet there he is,
I never heard josh Rogan but let him speak.