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Young concluded his initial letter by calling for more artists and companies to take a similar stance and take their music off of Spotify to “stop supporting Spotify’s deadly misinformation about Covid.” (A rep for Young declined to comment.)

He also called Spotify founder Daniel Ek his friend and said he was disappointed Ek had “taken the steps he has taken because it stopped my music from being shared on his SPOTIFY platform.” (A rep for Mercuriadis did not reply to a request for comment, but his Hipgnosis Studios posted a screenshot of Young’s open letter on Instagram on Tuesday with the message, ‘GO OFF NEIL’ and five clapping emojis.) In a follow-up letter posted just after his initial announcement, Young thanked Merck Mercuriadis and his company Hipgnosis Songs fund, which bought a 50 percent stake in Young’s publishing rights last year. Unfortunately, it is not.” (Shrewdly capitalizing on the opportunity, SiriusXM announced that Young’s entire catalog would be available on their Neil Young Radio station starting Thursday.) “Yet my friends at Warner Brothers Reprise stood with me, recognizing the threat the Covid misinformation on Spotify posed to the world - particularly for our young people who think everything they hear on Spotify is true. “Spotify represents 60% of the streaming of my music to listeners around the world, almost every record I have ever released is available - my life’s music - a huge loss for my record company to absorb,” Young wrote. In Young’s new letter, he blasts Spotify as “a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about Covid.” He thanked his label Warner Records for standing by his decision and noted that a majority of his streaming revenue comes from Spotify. Spotify begun to remove Neil Young’s catalog Wednesday evening. Not both.” The Wall Street Journal first reported the news that Spotify will take down Young’s catalog.

On Monday, Young posted a since-deleted letter on his website addressed to his management and record label demanding his music be removed from Spotify, noting that the company can have “Rogan or Young. Both Young, who shared a letter on his website, and Spotify confirmed the news in separate statements.

Spotify has begun to remove Neil Young’s music following the rocker’s protest of dissemination of Covid-19 misinformation on the streamer’s Joe Rogan’s podcast.