But in an interview, she said her reasoning for requesting that her music and podcast, SongVersation, be taken down goes beyond the rocker’s anger over Rogan’s COVID-19 conspiracy theories. 1 when she shared that she’d be removing her music from Spotify. The Grammy-winning singer expressed solidarity with Young on Feb. “Amy and I are honored and blessed to call Neil and Daryl friends, and knew standing with them was the right choice.” He also encouraged “all musicians, artists and music lovers everywhere, to stand with us all, and cut ties with Spotify.” “Neil and I go back 53 years,” Lofgren’s statement continued. Lofgren noted that 27 years of his music has been taken off the service, and that he is also reaching out to labels that own his earlier music to have those removed as well. In a statement shared to the Neil Young Archives, Lofgren said: “A few days ago, my wife and I became aware of Neil and Daryl standing with hundreds of health care professionals, scientists, doctors and nurses in calling out Spotify for promoting lies and misinformation that are hurting and killing people.” 30 that his music be pulled from Spotify. They've even gone as far as replacing their Spotify profile banner with a black and green "Delete Spotify" image.Like Young, longtime guitarist for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band Lofgren cited an open letter from 270 professionals in the scientific and medical communities, calling on the streaming service to address misinformation distributed on the platform in asking Jan. But bands like Eve6 and Belly - who say they want to remove their music from Spotify but legally can't - are asking fans to delete the streaming service anyway. Such a move is especially hard for midsize artists. "Thank you Warner Brothers for standing with me and taking the hit - losing 60% of my worldwide streaming income in the name of truth."
"Before I told my friends at Warner Bros about my desire to leave the Spotify platform, I was reminded by my own legal forces that contractually I did not have the control of my music to do that," Young wrote on his website last week.
Even Neil Young couldn't remove his music from Spotify on his own. In order for an artist to remove their catalog from Spotify, they often need approval from other stakeholders. The incident called attention to the fact that many artists don't own the rights to their music.
Evan Greer JanuSo why aren't more musicians deleting their music from Spotify?Īfter the master recordings for Taylor Swift's first six albums, released by Big Machine, were sold twice without her consent, the pop superstar pledged to rerecord the albums so that her fans would be able to enjoy her music without someone else profiting from its success. While artists are paid less than a penny per stream, Rogan's Spotify contract was valued at $100 million. The central grievance is Spotify's "streamshare" business model that often pays about $0.0038 per stream, which independent artists have protested against for years. "But I think what a lot of musicians and artists in our position are trying to do is use that as a way to open the conversation more into labor practices and usage." "The focus initially starts on issues to do with Rogan," Thomas Gorman of Belly, the alt-rock band that was the first to replace its profile photo and banner image with bright green "Delete Spotify" graphics, told Insider. Singer-songwriters Graham Nash and India Arie joined the likes of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell on Tuesday as artists pull their music from Spotify in protest over vaccine misinformation spread on "The Joe Rogan Experience."īut smaller, lesser-known artists who don't always own their recordings and can't simply leave the streaming giant are using the momentum to discuss other issues facing the music industry. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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