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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 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…

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…

David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash have issued a statement supporting former bandmate Neil Young in seeking the removal of their music from Spotify in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan. In the statement posted on Stills’ Twitter page, the trio write, “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is…

Amid the mounting pressure on Spotify over allegations of Covid misinformation presented on its Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the show’s host made an apology of sorts — “if I pissed you off, I’m sorry” — and garnered support from Dwayne Johnson, Kevin James, Jewel, Jamie Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, Troy Aikman, Kat Von D…

Neil Young’s former and longtime bandmates Graham Nash and Nils Lofgren, along with singer-songwriter India.Arie, are the latest musicians to join Neil Young and Joni Mitchell in announcing the removal of their songs from Spotify. Nash, Young’s former collaborator in Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, Lofgren, a longtime…

Tech stocks and the beleaguered Nasdaq jumped today in a rally led by streamers Spotify, Netflix and Roku. All have seen their shares pummeled, with Netflix in particular being hit by disappointing subscriber numbers last quarter and Spotify embroiled in a Joe Rogan controversy. Spotify is up 12% at $193, Netflix by…

A partially contrite Joe Rogan admitted today that he doesn't "always get it right" on his podcast and promised to "do better" going forward as Spotify scrambled to contain the growing backlash to the ex-Fear Factor host's take on Covid-19 vaccines. The same day that CEO Daniel Ek announced adding content warnings…

The legendary Joni Mitchell has announced she, too, will remove her music from Spotify because “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives.” Mitchell says she is doing so “in solidarity” with her longtime friend, Neil Young, who requested his music be removed from the service because…

A day after Neil Young's music left Spotify, the “Heart of Gold” singer is showing nothing but love for Jeff Bezos' Amazon Music. Big free-trial love that is, and a solid middle finger to Spotify. Having requested earlier this week that his songs leave the Swedish music streamer if Spotify continued to support Joe Roga…

Barry Manilow is not following Neil Young’s anti-Spotify lead after all. Despite rampant Twitter rumors over the last two days, Manilow says he is not removing his music from streaming service Spotify. Young removed his own catalog from the service in protest over Joe Rogan’s Spotify podcast, which Young says spreads…