Volgens Variety daalden de aandelen van Spotify met 6 percent between 26 and 28 January. The Joe Rogan Experience heeft per aflevering zo’n 11 miljoen luisteraars. Young is criticized in the middle of the open letter that says the streaming service ‘potentially useful information helps spread’ and that ‘you can read Rogan and Young, you can’t do it all’.
The American comedian, vechtsporter and presenter Joe Rogan sells his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience in 2020 because he spends 100 million euros on Spotify. Regularly, Rogan has gone to extreme right-wingers, such as the judges of the neo-fascist Proud Boys and the alt-right publicist Milo Yiannopoulos. Onder other, the lastest requests will be verwijderd na Rogans overstap naar Spotify.
‘We are aware that the beginning of the pandemic sea then 20,000 podcastaflevingen verwijderd met betrekking dead Covid-19’, says a word from Spotify above The Washington Post. ‘We take care of Neil’s decision about the music from Spotify and we hope that it will soon be better.’
Joni Mitchell
In the wake of Young heeft zaterdag also singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell Laten weten dat ze haar muziek van Spotify af wil halen. Op haar website writes ze dat ze solidair is met by Neil Young and ‘de wereldwijde wetenschappelijke en medical gemeenschap’. ‘Onverantwoordelijke mensen undeniably promise the other het leven costs.’
In jeugd raakt Neil Young besmet with the poliovirus, dat tegenwoordig thankszij vaccinatie nagenoeg is uitgeroeid. A couple of years ago, it was said that the music was also there from Spotify, toen omdat de audiokwaliteit volgens hem not good genoeg was. Later kwam hij daarvan terug: ‘It is waar mensen hun muziek vandaan halen.’