They will donate their streaming revenue to COVID-19 charities for at least a month
Crosby, Stills & Nash have put their music back on Spotify five months after triumphantly removing their catalogue in support of their former bandmate Neil Young.
What you need to know:
- Crosby, Stills & Nash return to Spotify after removing their music from the streaming platform five months ago.
- They will donate their streaming revenue to COVID-19 charities for at least a month.
- Young boycotted the streaming service after penning an open letter accusing Spotify and their exclusive Joe Rogan Podcast of spreading fake information about vaccines.
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Young boycotted the streaming service after penning an open letter accusing Spotify and their exclusive Joe Rogan Podcast of “spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them”.
The band members stood with Young in February when they said, “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast.
“While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences.
“Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music – or the music we made together – to be on the same platform.”
Since Young’s boycott, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek released a statement at the time saying the streaming service would introduce an advisory on podcasts that discuss COVID-19.
Meanwhile, Rogan posted a 10-minute video to Instagram, in which he said he was not “trying to promote misinformation” with his podcast, and chose to bring on vaccine sceptics such as guests “to hear what their opinion is”.
“I had them on and because of that, those episodes in particular were labelled as being dangerous – they had dangerous misinformation,” Rogan said, adding that he’ll do his best to try to “balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people perspectives so we can maybe find a better point of view”.
Billboard reported that David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash’s streaming revenue will be donated to COVID-19 charities for at least a month in case people were thinking this was a monetary issue – time will tell if that persists.
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