Neil Young - the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee set the ball rolling on a mass exodus with his exit from Spotify. Every artist that has withdrawn or protested Spotify: Spotify has pledged to add a content warning to Rogan's podcast and, in what is seen as an attempt to quell the outrage, Rogan himself issued an apology and pledged to 'try harder' to make his episodes more balanced. Jenkins did however concede that “What Spotify hasn’t done is move fast enough to share these policies externally.” The row with Young has thrown renewed scrutiny on Spotify's editorial policy, particularly in regards to misinformation.įollowing the singer's intervention leaked messages from the Spotify Slack channel showed Dustee Jenkins (Spotify’s head of global communications and public relations) reassuring colleagues that several episodes of Rogan’s podcast had been reviewed and found not to meet the threshold for removal. Tina Turner sells the rights to her back catalogue for millions, amid music industry gold rush.Bob Dylan sells entire back catalogue of recorded music to Sony for €220 million.And, we don’t dictate what they’re putting in their songs either,” the streaming boss told Axios. “We have a lot of really well-paid rappers on Spotify too that make tens of millions of dollars, if not more, each year from Spotify. In defence of their non-editorialising stance, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said “Joe Rogan is just one out of eight million creators on the platform.” However, this appears to be the extent of Spotify’s intervention and Rogan later invited Jones back onto his show for a second interview. Listeners following Rogan to Spotify were dismayed when it was revealed that some episodes had not been transferred to the streaming platform including his interviews with Yiannopoulos and Jones.

They haven’t given me a hard time at all,” the comedian said.

In a conversation on a podcast episode with fellow comedian Fahim Anwar about corporate censorship, Rogan emphatically denied any censorship by Spotify.

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