Read Young’s latest blog post over on the The Neil Young Archives website. Spotify plays the artists’s music at 5% of its quality and charges you like it was the real thing.” Young, the Canadian-American grunge rocker, removed his catalogue off of Spotify earlier this year after the Sweden-based streaming company refused his demand to fire Rogan over alleged. If you support Spotify, you are destroying an art form. The musician then called out Spotify for cutting the quality of the music it streams, writing, “Amazon, Apple Music and Qobuz deliver up to 100% of the music today and it sounds a lot better than the shitty, degraded and neutered sound of Spotify. I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others.” 28 that he “supports free speech” and “has never been in favor of censorship,” but he added about the Rogan situation, “Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information. Young wrote in a blog post published Jan. Artists such as Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash and India Arie soon followed. Young was the first major artist to remove his music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan and the COVID misinformation spread on his Spotify-exclusive podcast.

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