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Spotify wants Joe Rogan and every musician. That's proving impossible
CNN
Spotify wants to be the everything-for-everyone audio company. But it's 2022, and that's proving impossible.
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell asked Spotify last week to pull their music from the platform because of Joe Rogan, who has made frequent false and inaccurate claims about Covid-19 and vaccines on his very popular Spotify podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience."
Spotify finds itself in between a rock and a hard place — it built a streaming music empire of 172 million subscribers in 180 countries on music from artists like Young and Mitchell, and it's focused on becoming a hub for exclusive podcasts like Rogan's.
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