Amidst Neil Young Boycott Due to Joe Rogan, Artists Including Beatles & Taylor Swift Who Had a Rift With Spotify Too

Popular podcast host, Joe Rogan, has been at the center of a major drama involving Spotify. The UFC Icon even found himself at odds with popular musician Neil Young, who publicly criticized the platform. The misinformation controversy with Rogan compelled Young to exit Spotify along with his entire library of songs.

Initially, Young threatened to pull his music from the platform if Spotify failed to take any action against the Joe Rogan Experience show. Unfortunately, things didn’t go the way the 76-year-old had anticipated, and it spawned another feud with Spotify.

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However, Young isn’t the only musician who had a very public fallout with the platform. Over the years, many celebrities had issues, which saw them either leaving or choosing rival media service providers.

Musicians who had a beef with Spotify apart from Neil Young’s feud with Joe Rogan

Spotify’s guidelines and the way it operates don’t necessarily please everyone like UFC Icon Joe Rogan. It is being said that the platform reportedly retracted a few episodes of the JRE podcast that didn’t seem appropriate instead of taking the podcast down. While this move slowed down the public outcry, it failed to win Neil Young’s trust. According to a report by ranker, there are more celebrities, who also had a similar fallout.

Taylor Swift – Popular musician and the owner of many record-breaking songs, Swift back in 2014 decided to pull her entire library from stating music is art and art should not be free. She said, “Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.”

The Beatles: The mega-successful English rock band never interacted with Spotify, as the surviving members of fab 4 decided to sign an exclusive deal with iTunes.

Pink Floyd: Surviving Members of the illustrious rock group spoke out against such streaming services that offer music for free. The group said,” We hope that many online and mobile music services can give fans and artists the music they want, when they want it, at price points that work, But those same services should fairly pay the artists and creators who make the music at the core of their businesses. For almost all working musicians, it’s also a question of economic survival.”

Coldplay: The band reportedly refused to release their previous album Ghost Stories on Spotify back in 2014 and they continue to abide by it.

The Black Keys: Member of the Rock Duo and drummer Patrick Carney took aim at the platform and its owner. He disliked how the platform operates and critiqued it for not adequately rewarding the artists.

He said,” My whole thing about music is: if somebody’s making money then the artist should be getting a fair cut of it. The owner of Spotify is worth something like $3 billion… he’s richer than Paul McCartney and he’s 30 and he’s never written a song.”

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Tool: Unlike its peers, Tool initially stayed safe from Spotify, but in the end they ended up embracing it. The group even called digital streaming services the future and backed the platform.

In a statement, frontman Maynard James Keenan stated, “Our obsession with, and dream of, a world where BetaMax and Laser Disc rule has ended. Time for us to move on. But never fear. There’s a brand new thing we think you’re really gonna dig. It’s called Digital Downloads and Streaming. Get ready for the future, folks!”

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