“Why are we still ‘on’ spotify if we dont like them? It’s very complicated,” they continued. “Originally Spotiify just hosted content, now they have moved into paying for exclusivity. If you can find a way to avoid supporting a platform like spotify, we say ‘noice job,'” they wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. “There are many ways to listen to our music. As Variety reports, the banner and logo on the band’s existing Spotify page now displays a graphic that reads “DELETE SPOTIFY.” The band has been vocal on social media over the last few days about their distaste for the streaming service.

Their Archewell Foundation released a statement disavowing the “rampant mis and disinformation” being spread on the platform, BBC News reports.’90s alt-rock band Belly are among the artists looking to remove their music from Spotify after Neil Young and Joni Mitchell did so as a protest against Joe Rogan’s vaccine misinformation. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have a podcast deal with Spotify estimated to be worth $25 million. Tom Scharpling also pulled his long-running weekly radio show The Best Show from Spotify. “To our #UnlockingUs and #DaretoLead communities, I’m sorry and I'll let you know if and when that changes.” At publication time, Brown has not publicly cited a specific reason for her decision. “I will not be releasing any podcasts until further notice,” she wrote on Twitter. In addition to Young, Mitchell, and Nils Lofgren’s Spotify boycott, the band Belly recently changed their profile and header images on their Spotify artist pages to read “ DELETE SPOTIFY.” Due to contractual difficulties, their music has not been pulled from the platform.īrené Brown, the author and lecturer with a Spotify podcast deal of her own, has also announced that she’s stepping away from the platform. Rogan responded to the wave of departures in an Instagram video, saying he isn’t “mad” at Young and Mitchell, and would “certainly be open” to hosting “more experts with differing opinions right after I have the controversial ones.”

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