Spotify Faces Boycott Calls Over Royalties, Trump Inauguration Donation. Published Jan 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM EST. By . Marni Rose McFall is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K.

The long-running indie-rock band is protesting chief executive Daniel Ek’s military investments and also said the company “is flushing itself down the toilet” ...

Spotify obliged, and then Joni Mitchell announced she would also be leaving the platform for the same reason. Then, at least one podcaster announced they would suspend their Spotify shows.

For the record, Spotify earned record-high sales in 2024. The company’s controversial CEO, Daniel Ek, is currently earning substantially more than the highest-streamed artists on the Spotify ...

On the latter front: Billboard reports Spotify is hosting a Songwriter Of The Year Grammy party on January 28, but four out of the five songwriters nominated in that category will not be in ...

In early 2022, Neil Young removed his music from Spotify, in protest of the streaming service being the exclusive home of The Joe Rogan Experience.Recently, though, the exclusivity came to an end ...

Mitchell, 80, removed her songs from Spotify in 2022 in solidarity with Young to boycott Joe Rogen’s controversial podcast. At the time, Mitchell wrote a post on her official site titled “I ...

Neil Young voluntarily removed his music from Spotify in 2022 after Joe Rogan, whose podcast was exclusively on Spotify, had a controversial infectious disease expert on as a guest during the ...

Earnings Results Spotify stock slammed by light subscription forecast, but CEO says Joe Rogan was not the reason Music-streaming service topped $10 billion in revenue for the first time in 2021 ...