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Standing just a few feet away from the first President of the United States to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner since 2016, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah mixed the political with the pop culture to take an equal-opportunity dig at everyone tonight — including the people who pay him the big bucks. “I…

Spotify said it is not experiencing any negative effects from blowback over podcast hosts like Joe Rogan, with the company’s first-quarter results exceeding Wall Street forecasts. The Stockholm-based audio giant swung to earnings of 24 cents a share compared with a loss of 30 cents a year ago. Revenue inched up to…

He’s still just a Regular Joe, Joe Rogan seemed to be saying on his Spotify podcast Tuesday. Rogan was speaking with MMA fighter Josh Barnett who wondered, after his appearance on the massively popular show, “Is everyone going to pore over every single thing I say?” “They will,” the host responded, “but it’s the same…

Like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and India Arie, Ava DuVernay's Array is no longer doing business with Spotify. Just more than a year after the activist Oscar nominee's film collective inked a first-look deal with the music and podcast streamer, a spokesperson for Array has confirmed the plug has been pulled. Even…

In an episode-long interview with The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah last night, singer India Arie addressed the recent Joe Rogan-Spotify controversy, mentioning – among other things – that she believes Rogan is “consciously racist." But today Noah is calling out “clickbait” news accounts of the interview that he thinks…

Quiet since November, The Problem with Jon Stewart is set to start up again on AppleTV+ on March 3. After a rocky initial reception for the former The Daily Show host's fortnightly return to the small screen last fall, the one-hour long, single-issue show will now roll out weekly moving forward. Adding to the mix, the…

In his latest salvo against Spotify, rocker Neil Young is urging musicians, creators and even employees to abandon the streaming service, telling Spotify workers to “get out of that place before it eats up your soul.” “To the workers at Spotify,” Young writes on his blog, “I say Daniel Ek is your problem – not Joe Roga…

Battling criticism for hosting The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast denounced for the propagation of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation and Rogan’s use of the N-word in 70 episodes, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek released a memo to his employees expressing how “deeply sorry” he is for the way the podcast affected his…

Joe Rogan has issued a statement expressing his regret over his use of the “N-word” in clips circulated by songstress India Arie. Rogan was depicted using the racial slur two dozen times in the clips, which were used by Arie to illustrate why she was withdrawing her music from Spotify, where Rogan licenses his…

Grammy-winning singer-songwrtier India Arie has posted clips today to Instagram showing Spotify host Joe Rogan using the N-word, a situation which she claimed led her to withdraw her music from the streamer. The resurfaced clips, which were posted on YouTube at one time, were used to explain Arie’s decision. She also…

Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek has told employees that exclusive deals like one with Joe Rogan are critical to the company's business, and that while he sometimes finds the podcast offensive he doesn't consider Spotify a "publisher" in terms of bearing responsibility for content it carries. "I understand the…

UPDATED with CEO comments, stock price: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the bull by the horns, addressing the widening controversy over Joe Rogan in his opening remarks on a conference call with Wall Street analysts after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report. “Obviously, it's been a few notable days here at…