Yet my friends at Warner Bros./Reprise stood with me, recognizing the threat the COVID misinformation on Spotify.' Young added, 'Spotify represents 60 percent 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. I was prepared to do all I could and more just to make sure that happened. I want to thank my truly great and supportive record company Warner Bros./Reprise Records, for standing with me in my decision to pull all my music from Spotify. I announced I was leaving anyway, because I knew I was. 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.

He continued, 'Before I told my friends at Warner Bros. I knew I had to try to point that out.' (via Rolling Stone)

'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. 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. These young people believe Spotify would never present grossly unfactual information. 'Spotify has recently become a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID,' Young wrote. He thanked his record label, Warner Music Group, for standing by him. Now, in two new letters Young shared Wednesday on his Neil Young Archives site, the rocker behind classics such as 'Heart of Gold' and 'Harvest Moon' estimated he'd lose 60 percent of his streaming revenue.

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