But the veteran rocker escalated the crusade earlier this week, when he posted (and then deleted) a letter on his website asking his manager and an executive at his label, Warner Bros., to pull his entire catalog from Spotify. I want to thank my truly great and supportive record company Warner Brothers – Reprise Records, for standing with me in my decision to pull all my music from Spotify.Neil Young has never been quiet about his hatred of streaming, Big Tech, or the digitization of the music experience in general. I was prepared to do all I could and more just to make sure that happened. I announced I was leaving anyway, because I knew I was. Before I told my friends at Warner Bros about my desire to leave the Spotify platform, I was reminded by my own legal forces that contractually I did not have the control of my music to do that. I realised I could not continue to support Spotify’s life threatening misinformation to the music loving public. “I first learned of this problem by reading that 200 plus doctors had joined forces, taking on the dangerous life-threatening COVID falsehoods found in Spotify programming. “Spotify has recently become a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID,” he said.
Young followed that up with a new statement of his own, expanding on his standpoint. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.” Young’s discography will be removed from Spotify later this evening.” We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID since the start of the pandemic. “With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. Now, in a statement acknowledging the artist’s request, a Spotify representative insisted the platform has been doing its utmost to tackle the issue of disinformation (as per WSJ). “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users,” the statement reads.
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