“Soon my music will live on in a better place,” Young wrote, pointing fans toward Amazon and Apple Music.“I realized I could not continue to support Spotify's life-threatening misinformation to the music loving people,” Young said in a statement. In the new letter, he takes a detour to mention Spotify’s low streaming quality, calling it an “upside” for his fans that they can to find his extensive back catalogue elsewhere in higher quality. At the time, he launched a streaming hardware device and accompanying music service called Pono designed specifically for high quality audio. Back in 2015, he threatened to remove his music from Spotify and other platforms over complaints that they reduced the quality of his recordings. This isn’t Young’s first time clashing with streaming services. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”

“I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” he wrote in a letter first reported by Rolling Stone.

Young announced the intention to pull his music in a since-deleted open letter to his management team and label. “I sincerely hope that other artists and record companies will move off the SPOTIFY platform and stop supporting SPOTIFY’s deadly misinformation about COVID,” Young wrote, singing off “in the name of truth.” In the post, he notes that Spotify comprises 60 percent of his streaming income globally. These young people believe SPOTIFY would never present grossly unfactual information. “… Most of the listeners hearing the unfactual, 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,” he wrote, declining to mention Rogan’s show by name. In an update on his official website, Young explained the thinking behind the decision to pull his music.

Neil Young plans to pull his music from Spotify over Joe Rogan COVID misinformation

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