


No wonder both CEO Daniel Ek and Joe Rogan put out statements last Sunday promising to do better. Spotify later announced in a statement that it would add content advisories to all relevant podcast episodes. Spotify grapples with artist backlash over COVID-19 misinformation on platform Jan 31, 2022. I’m a Neil Young fan, I’ve always have been a Neil Young fan.” A day after Spotify chose Joe Rogan over Neil Young, SiriusXM has announced that it will relaunch its own limited-run Neil Young Radio Channel of the rock icons catalogue. Of Young and Mitchell’s departure from Spotify, Rogan added: “I’m very sorry that they feel that way. I will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people perspectives so we can maybe find a better point of view.Īdmitting that it is a “strange responsibility to have this many views and listeners,” he promised “to do my best in the future to balance things out.”

He told fans: “I don’t always get it right. Other entertainment figures who followed Young’s lead and renounced the. Rogan responded to the backlash at the time, addressing in a video “some of the controversy that’s been going on over the past few days”.
