![]() ![]() So although Rogan may have caused a massive PR headache for the company, Spotify didn’t experience a mass exodus because of him - at least not from those who pay for the service. “Excluding the impact of our exit from Russia, subscriber growth exceeded expectations,” the company said. In fact, Spotify noted that it would have done even better had it not pulled out of Russia in April following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Those numbers are roughly in line with what the company said it was expecting in terms of growth. (SPOT) saw its paid memberships increase, and the platform now has 182 million premium subscribers - up from 180 million in the previous quarter and 15% higher year over year, the company said in its first quarter earnings report Wednesday. Spotify’s paying customers apparently couldn’t care less. The comedian’s frequent and sometimes inaccurate claims about Covid-19 and vaccines on his very popular, “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast led some artists to leave the site in protest. They've even gone as far as replacing their Spotify profile banner with a black and green "Delete Spotify" image.Earlier this year, Spotify found itself embroiled in a controversy sparked by one of its most notable podcast hosts, Joe Rogan. But bands like Eve6 and Belly - who say they want to remove their music from Spotify but legally can't - are asking fans to delete the streaming service anyway. Such a move is especially hard for midsize artists. "Thank you Warner Brothers for standing with me and taking the hit - losing 60% of my worldwide streaming income in the name of truth." "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," Young wrote on his website last week. Even Neil Young couldn't remove his music from Spotify on his own. In order for an artist to remove their catalog from Spotify, they often need approval from other stakeholders. The incident called attention to the fact that many artists don't own the rights to their music. ![]() Evan Greer JanuSo why aren't more musicians deleting their music from Spotify?Īfter the master recordings for Taylor Swift's first six albums, released by Big Machine, were sold twice without her consent, the pop superstar pledged to rerecord the albums so that her fans would be able to enjoy her music without someone else profiting from its success. While artists are paid less than a penny per stream, Rogan's Spotify contract was valued at $100 million. The central grievance is Spotify's "streamshare" business model that often pays about $0.0038 per stream, which independent artists have protested against for years. ![]() "But I think what a lot of musicians and artists in our position are trying to do is use that as a way to open the conversation more into labor practices and usage." "The focus initially starts on issues to do with Rogan," Thomas Gorman of Belly, the alt-rock band that was the first to replace its profile photo and banner image with bright green "Delete Spotify" graphics, told Insider. Singer-songwriters Graham Nash and India Arie joined the likes of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell on Tuesday as artists pull their music from Spotify in protest over vaccine misinformation spread on "The Joe Rogan Experience."īut smaller, lesser-known artists who don't always own their recordings and can't simply leave the streaming giant are using the momentum to discuss other issues facing the music industry. ![]()
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