![]() ![]() Young also posted a separate letter additionally thanking Hipgnosis Song Fund, which owns 50 percent of his publishing rights, along with Universal Music. and Reprise Records for supporting him in removing his music from Spotify, while noting the service represented 60 percent of his total streaming income. Young confirmed this with a new letter posted to his website, “in the name of truth.” “I realized I could not continue to support SPOTIFY’s life threatening misinformation to the music loving public,” Young wrote on the Neil Young Archives Times Contrarian. Neil Young’s music is no longer on Spotify. Update, Thursday January 27 at 9:31 a.m.: Just like in “Powderfinger,” the trigger has been pulled. ![]() As an unexpected bonus, I sound better everywhere else.” “I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others. “Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information,” Young wrote. He closed his letter by clarifying that he supports free speech and is against censorship. “If you support Spotify, you are destroying an art form,” Young wrote. ![]() He encouraged listeners to switch to streaming services like Amazon, Apple Music, and Qobuz, which he said fully preserve music and sound “a lot better than the shitty degraded and neutered sound of Spotify.” Variety reported earlier this month that plans for Spotify HiFi, which would have provided higher quality audio, have been delayed indefinitely. In a new letter posted to his website, Young claimed that Spotify sells “downgraded music” at 5% of its original quality. Update, Friday January 28 at 7:10 p.m.: Joe Rogan isn’t the only reason Neil Young “felt better” about no longer having his music on Spotify. ![]()
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