“I think it’s ironic what Neil Young said about spreading misinformation considering the comments he made about LGBT and AIDS in the 80s,” Logan Hancock, a student who graduated in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in education from Ohio State University, said.Īccording to Rolling Stone, Young made offensive comments about AIDS in an interview with Melody Maker in 1985, using a queer slur and other expletives. The music was added back to Spotify 10 days later.

Spotify confirmed to NME in March 2021 that Kakao M, a South Korean entertainment company, would be removing several Korean artists’ catalogs from the streaming platform. “Apart from the misinformation, it sounds similar to what’s happened with some K-pop groups and why their big time producers/whoever ‘owns' them in South Korea won’t let their music be shared on Spotify,” Caroline Rhude, a sophomore studying Spanish and social work at Ohio University, said in a message. Other popular figures on Spotify who are reconsidering their partnership include Brené Brown and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Several artists and podcast hosts are following Young’s lead, including Jodi Mitchell, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. 27 after Spotify, which paid Rogan $100 million dollars to buy exclusive rights to his podcast in 2020, refused to remove 'JRE' from its podcast library. Author and Black, queer feminist Roxane Gay has also decided to remove her podcast 'The Roxane Gay Agenda' from Spotify, also. 4, Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter India.Arie published a compilation of the comments on Instagram and has requested her music be removed from Spotify. Spotify has removed approximately 70 episodes of Rogan’s podcast after videos of him using a racial slur resurfaced.

In an episode published April 23, 2021, Rogan said, “But if you're like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I'll go no.”Īccording to Spotify’s year-end statistics, 'JRE' was the most-streamed podcast among Spotify listeners in 2021. Young wrote that he was inspired to take action after a letter published and signed by over 200 medical professionals called on Spotify to address Rogan’s “concerning history of broadcasting misinformation, particularly regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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