Young’s music is available on other streaming services and his paid website, Neil Young Archives, for between $19.99 (“Classic”) and $99.99 (“Patron”) per year. Young continues in this manner before concluding, “I sincerely hope that other artists and record companies will move off the Spotify platform and stop supporting Spotify’s deadly misinformation about COVID.Ĭontacted by Variety, reps for Hipgnosis Songs Management, which last year acquired 50% of Young’s worldwide copyright and income interests in his entire song catalog, and Warner Records did not immediately comment. “I want to thank my truly great and supporting record company Warner Brothers – Reprise Records, for standing with me in my decision to pull all my music from Spotify. I announced I was leaving anyway,” he continues. “Before I told my friends at Warner Bros about my desire to leave the Spotify platform, I was reminded by my own legal forces that contractually I did not have the control of my music to do that. He notes later in the post that he actually does not have the ability to make such a move himself, as control over music uploaded to streaming services is determined by the rights-holder, which in his case is Warner Records, formerly known as Warner Bros. “These young people believe Spotify would never present grossly unfactual information. Most of the listeners hearing the factual, misleading and false COVID information on Spotify are 24 years old, impressionable and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth. “I first learned of this problem by reading that 200-plus doctors had joined forces, taking on the dangerous life-threatening COVID falsehoods found in Spotify programming. “Spotify has recently become a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID,” he wrote.
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