LOS ANGELES --
David Crosby and Stephen Stills have joined Neil Younger and Graham Nash in asking their labels to take away their collective recordings from Spotify.
In line with the announcement, in help of stopping dangerous misinformation about Covid-19 on Joe Rogan's Spotify-hosted podcast, the musicians have determined to take away their information from the streaming platform together with the recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Younger; Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby-Nash, in addition to Crosby's and Stills' solo initiatives. Nash has already begun the method to take down his solo recordings.
In a unified assertion, the band members commented, "We help Neil and we agree with him that there's harmful disinformation being aired on Spotify's Joe Rogan podcast. Whereas we at all times worth alternate factors of view, knowingly spreading disinformation throughout this world pandemic has lethal penalties. Till actual motion is taken to point out that a concern for humanity should be balanced with commerce, we do not need our music - or the music we made collectively - to be on the identical platform."
Reps for Spotify didn't instantly reply to Selection's request for remark.
Following the same request by Joni Mitchell, the transfer reunites the 5 artists, who've been mates and collaborators for the reason that Sixties, in a stance that they definitely couldn't have imagined 50 years in the past. Whereas solely longtime Younger and Bruce Springsteen guitarist Nils Lofgren has joined their stance, many musicians have mentioned that they wish to take away their music from the streaming big -- the world's largest paid music-subscription service -- however both cannot legally achieve this, since their music is definitely owned by report labels, or can't afford to.
Younger began this motion final week by demanding that his music be faraway from Spotify, citing the streaming service's distribution partnership with Joe Rogan and accusing Rogan's podcast "The Joe Rogan Expertise" of spreading false info concerning COVID-19 and vaccines.
The musician posted a since-deleted open letter to his official web site that learn partly,"Please instantly inform Spotify that I'm actively canceling all my music availability on Spotify as quickly as doable. I'm doing this as a result of Spotify is spreading false details about vaccines -- probably inflicting dying to those that imagine the disinformation being unfold by them.
"Please act on this instantly right this moment and hold me knowledgeable of the time schedule," the assertion continues. "I need you to let Spotify know instantly right this moment that I need all of my music off their platform. They'll have Rogan or Younger. Not each."
Some public well being officers have additionally urged Spotify to take motion towards Rogan, accusing the massively fashionable "The Joe Rogan Expertise" podcast of possessing a "regarding historical past of broadcasting misinformation, significantly concerning the COVID-19 pandemic."
Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek issued an announcement on Sunday saying the corporate was not within the enterprise of censorship however would submit Covid info and warnings earlier than related podcasts, however the controversy has continued.
David Crosby arrives on the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. (Photograph by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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