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Young v Spotify: How the Joe Rogan Experience began the battle
Audio streaming service Spotify has been making headlines this week after folk rock legend Neil Young asked the service to remove his music.
The Canadian-American songwriter took umbrage to episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast Spotify reportedly paid around US$100 million to host exclusively on their platform.
Young said the podcast aired “dangerous life-threatening COVID-19 falsehoods”.
In the wake of his request, Spotify’s share price tumbled, other artists including Joni Mitchell joined the exodus, and thousands of Spotify customers cancelled their subscriptions.
The streamer has since made its COVID-19 policies public and promised to add content advisory warnings to any podcast episodes discussing the pandemic. Rogan himself has said he is a Neil Young fan and will endeavour to balance things out in the future.
Today on Please Explain, senior culture writer Karl Quinn joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the controversy between Neil Young and Spotify.
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