![]() “I’m not trying to promote misinformation. And Rogen, who was ruled not to have violated the streamer’s standards, played the innocence card. It didn’t take long for Spotify to issue a statement that Covid-related content would now come with advisories. ![]() And other large conglomerates, such as Apple Music, were quick to tout that Young and his former bandmates are still available on their services. With a limited number of artists ( Joni Mitchell, India Aire) joining in so far, the long-term consequences of such a move are unknown, but Spotify’s stock dropped 17 percent on Thursday. “Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music - or the music we made together - to be on the same platform.” “While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences,” Crosby, Stills, and Nash said in the statement, which was posted to Twitter. Young pulled his music from Spotify in a protest over “fake information about vaccines” that has been spread on the “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. ![]() 24 request to remove his solo music from Spotify prompted his former bandmates to issue a statement on Wednesday asking for all their music to be pulled from the streaming service, which has 172 million subscribers. Prior to last week, the odds of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young agreeing on anything in the 21st century were the same as the sales of music CDs increasing in the universe of anywhere, anytime streaming.īut with a country split by Covid and a giant gulf in what used to be the middle, the four classic rock activists reunited to take on a common enemy: big business.
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