The music streaming service confirmed the news in a statement reported Wednesday after Young’s record label, Warner Music Group's Warner Records, made the request to extract his content.
“We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators," a Spotify spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. "We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.” The process of removing Young's music is expected to take a number of hours, noted the company, adding, "We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon."
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Young, known for songs like "Heart of Gold" and "Harvest Moon," decried Spotify in an open letter, posted on his website, to his management team and label on Monday over not cracking down on what he said was the spread of COVID-19 misinformation through The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan's podcast. The letter has since been removed.
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“Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform," the letter read, according to the New York Times. "I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform. They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.”
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A group of 270 public health experts, doctors, and scientists signed a letter earlier this month calling for the removal of an episode of Rogan's podcast dated December 31, 2021, featuring an interview with Dr. Robert Malone and "has been criticized for promoting baseless conspiracy theories," particularly involving COVID-19.
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Young posted on his website that he came to the decision to remove his music from the service because he would no longer support Spotify providing "life-threatening misinformation to the music-loving public." Instead, his music is available for streaming on other services such as Amazon Music and Apple.
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Among those to voice support for Spotify's decision was Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. Spotify may not be kicking Rogan off its platform, but as The Wrap reported, it has deleted more than 40 episodes of his podcast. This is not the first time Young has removed his music from a platform. In 2015, Young removed his music from all major streaming services due to what he considered "poor sound quality" from streaming, though he permitted his music to be re-added later.