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months-long boycott of the platform over concerns regarding misinformation being shared on Joe Rogan's podcast.Per , the trio will donate proceeds from streams of their music to COVID-19 charities for at least a month.Though the band split in 2015, they reunited in February, to issue a joint statement in support of their former bandmate, Neil Young, who made the decision to remove his music from the streamer in January, giving Spotify an ultimatum to choose either Young's music or Rogan's podcast — which is exclusively available on the streamer.In their statement, Crosby, Stills and Nash shared their concerns over having their catalog of music on the same streaming platform as the «dangerous disinformation» being shared by Rogan on his podcast.«We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast. While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences.
Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music — or the music we made together — to be on the same platform,» bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash said at the time.In response, a Spotify spokesperson told in a statement, «We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe French audio streaming service Deezer made its debut on the Paris Euronext market Tuesday and immediately plunged 35% from its €8.5 opening, rising slightly to level off at around €6.2 by late in the afternoon.Earlier this year the company, which is one of the world’s largest streaming services despite a relatively low U.S. profile, merged with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with an eye toward going public at a $1.13 billion valuation.
The recordings catalogue of Crosby, Stills & Nash has returned to Spotify, less than six months after it was pulled in solidarity with former bandmate Neil Young’s own boycott of the streaming platform.Young, of course, launched his boycott in January in protest against Spotify-exclusive podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which had been accused of spreading COVID misinformation.Crosby, Stills & Nash followed days later, saying in a statement that they had requested that the labels they work with remove from Spotify all of their recordings – including their solo work, and releases from their various collaborative projects, including those involving Young.“We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast”, they said at the time.“While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences”, they went on. “Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music – or the music we made together – to be on the same platform”.Spotify and Rogan have both since promised to make changes, respectively in the way they monitor podcast content and deal with controversial guests.
Crosby, Stills and Nash is back on Spotify after the musicians initially removed all of their music earlier this year in solidarity with Neil Young.Back in February, Crosby, Stills & Nash joined a growing number of acts who demanded that their music be removed from Spotify amid the COVID controversy involving Joe Rogan.Members of the disbanded folk supergroup, which when joined by Neil Young were known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, supported Young who in January said that he wanted all his music pulled from the streaming platform.Young took aim at controversial podcaster Joe Rogan – a prominent skeptic of the COVID vaccine who has a $100million exclusivity contract with Spotify – pointing out the widespread misinformation shared through his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.In February, Crosby, Stills and Nash said: “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast. While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences.
pulling their music off of Spotify in protest of COVID-19 misinformation by Joe Rogan, Crosby, Stills & Nash have returned to the streaming service.According to Billboard, the folk rock trio will donate proceeds from their streaming revenue to COVID-19 charities for at least a month. CSN has originally pulled their music from Spotify in support of longtime collaborator Neil Young, whose music is still not available on Spotify after he demanded his music be pulled on January 24 after Joe Rogan hosted COVID vaccine skeptics Dr.
Crosby, Stills and Nash apparently aren’t giving us just a song before they go. That’s because they’ve decided to return to Spotify, ending a boycott of the streamer that began in February in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan’s content.
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After having their music removed from Spotify earlier this year, Crosby, Stills & Nash are back on the streaming service.