Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. The Big Yellow Taxi singer’s statement read: “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Mitchell echoed Young’s sentiment by posting a statement on her website. Neil Young pulled his songs from the platform as in a now-deleted letter, he accused The Joe Rogan Experience of spreading “false information” about coronavirus vaccines. His newest tweet comes as Spotify hit the headlines over its hosting of The Joe Rogan Experience.

James Blunt is well known to tickle Twitter’s funny bone, and has previously proved he’s the king of trolling on the platform. At our level, Spotify is the industry de facto source for those analytics.Bad enough Neil young and Joni Mitchell have felt obliged to remove their music, now this. … - liam norris norris) Booking live shows for Sungazer is based on how many Spotify listeners we have in a given market. 'As much as I'd like to remove my music from Spotify, I really can't. So could Young and Mitchell spark more artists to leave the platform? Will metal bands start to leave as well? Another interesting take on the situation comes from YouTuber and Sungazer bassist Adam Neely, who points out that ideals and reality are two different things for smaller artists. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.'

Mitchell said 'I've decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Songwriter Joni Mitchell, whose songs have tens (and sometimes hundreds) of millions of plays on Spotify, has also announced she's leaving the platform. Disturbed vocalist David Draiman weighed in on the issue, saying ' I applaud you and for making the RIGHT call, preserving #FreeSpeech and not capitulating to the mob,' while solo artist and ex- Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach called Draiman out saying ' Imagine calling yourself a rocker yet siding with some dude who has a podcast over ?.' Now it seems the issue is only getting bigger.Īccording to Variety, Spotify lost about $2.1 billion in market share over the past few days (The San Francisco Chronicle puts it closer to $4 billion) while their stocks fell 6% between January 26 and 28.

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