Rogan differs from your average conspiracist YouTuber in the size and dedication of his audience, and in the fact that Spotify pays him directly and handsomely for the privilege of hosting his show. Music work is labor, and we are asking to be paid fairly for that labor.”
“Musicians all over the world are unemployed right now while the tech giants dominating the industry take in billions. “The company has tripled in value during the pandemic, while failing to increase its payment rates to artists by even a fraction of a penny,” organizer and musician Mary Regalado told Pitchfork at the time.
One group, the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, petitioned Spotify for higher payment rates for musicians in a series of protests last year. Still, I can’t help but wish that they’d broadened their public critiques to include causes for which musicians with far less leverage have been advocating for years.
As artists with millions of monthly streams each, they will presumably lose money with their boycott, and their willingness to make a material stand is admirable. Young and Mitchell are right to be critical of the disinformation that Rogan has allowed on his show, and of Spotify’s role in enabling it. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” she wrote. “Not both.” Not long after, Mitchell announced that she, too, would be removing her catalog from Spotify. Robert Malone, a guest on the show.) “They can have Rogan or Young,” Young wrote. (Rogan’s relationship with Spotify had previously been the target of a campaign by hundreds of medical professionals who objected to falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccine espoused by Dr. Last Wednesday, Young began pulling his discography from Spotify after publishing an open letter regarding the spread of “fake information about vaccines” on The Joe Rogan Experience, the massively popular podcast that the streaming platform acquired in a $100 million deal in 2020.
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