Crosby, Stills and Nash pulled their music – as well as the music they made with Young – to protest the fact that Spotify remains the home of the popular The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Joe Rogan also took to social media platform Instagram on Sunday, where in a nearly 10-minute long video he explained that he is open to changes in the show, and will work to book more mainstream health experts.
Several days after Neil Young and Joni Mitchell removed their music from Spotify to protest the music platform continued support of controversial podcaster Joe Rogan, the company responded to their unfolding crisis.
Singer-songwriter Neil Young told Spotify to choose between his music or Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, pushing back on false Covid-19 claims by Rogan.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed support for Neil Young after the singer-songwriter demanded Spotify remove his music from the platform if it continued to host Joe Rogan’s wildly-popular podcast.
The service currently hosts the hugely popular The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, where host/comedian Joe Rogan has publicly questioned vaccine information.
Neil Young has demanded Spotify pull his music over Covid-19 vaccine misinformation pushed by Joe Rogan’s podcast on the platform, according to an open letter Young sent to his management and record label.
Neil Young has had many issues with music streaming in the past – primarily over what he sees as inferior audio quality rather than around payment rates to musicians; but he has now demanded that Spotify remove his music because of its hosting of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
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