Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account “Be free and take the good path,” Young said. Young also encouraged Spotify employees to depart the company before “it eats up your soul.” Young’s initial decision came after a group of more than 250 scientists, doctors, nurses and researchers wrote an open letter to Spotify to call out the Covid-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories that Rogan promotes on his podcast. Neil Young, who drew attention to the anti-vaccine rhetoric on Rogan’s podcast by pulling his entire library from Spotify, this week encouraged more recording artists to leave the platform. The controversy, however, is still roiling the company. Ek also said that the language did not represent Spotify’s values. Rogan, whose contract with Spotify is worth a reported $100 million, apologized on Saturday for using the slurs on Saturday, admitting he “f***ed up.”ĭaniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, additionally attempted to quell the controversy Sunday night by telling employees that his team had spoken to Rogan and that the episodes had been removed from the platform’s library. The traffic, which has shown no signs of slowing down, could also ramp up as Rogan continues to face criticism for having used racial slurs in episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” years ago. “It implies people were passionate about the issue and took immediate action. Seema Shah, who leads SimilarWeb’s research team, told CNN that she hasn’t seen something like this in Spotify’s history. Still, the increased traffic to the page is notable. And there’s no way to be sure, at least for now, how many of those visits to the cancellation page actually resulted in a cancellation. The company said in its most recent earnings report that it had hit 180 million paying subscribers, meaning that even if all the recent visits to the page represented actual cancellations for its paid product, it would likely not cause much damage to its bottom line.

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