“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Responding to Young’s call, Joni Mitchell announced on Friday, January 28th that she also wanted to have her songs removed from Spotify. They accused the Rogan podcast that it was “promoting baseless conspiracy theories.” Joni Mitchell joins the protest Earlier in January, a group of 270 scientists and healthcare professionals signed a different open letter. “I sincerely hope that other artists and record companies will move off the Spotify platform and stop supporting Spotify’s deadly misinformation about Covid,” Young wrote on his website on the day Spotify removed all of his songs.Īs The Wall Street Journal explained last week, this wasn’t the first time Joe Rogan created tensions for Spotify. Joe Rogan had yet to react to the unfolding events as Young appealed to others to join him in his Spotify boycott. “We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.” With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators,” a Spotify spokesman said at the time. “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. Spotify obliged, removing all the Neil Young music from its website on Wednesday (January 26th). “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continued. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.” “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,” Young wrote. Neil Young penned a now-deleted open letter (via Rolling Stone) on January 24th where he asked the streamer to remove his music from the platform.

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