Spotify announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2021, reporting that the number of monthly active users (MAU) exceeded 400 million and the number of paying members increased by 16% year-on-year to 180 million. It shows that we recorded favorable figures following the previous year.
On the other hand, regarding Joe Rogan's misinformation podcast that triggered Neil Young and others to repatriate the song, CEO Daniel Ek said that it is "a few notable problems" and Spotify is working on measures against misinformation. He said he was doing it and that he still had something to do. In the Q & A in the performance report, a question about Logan's podcast popped up, and CEO Ek said, "I've had a lot of learning opportunities in the last few weeks." I'm doing it. "
He also continued that he did not set any special rules for some creators, "Joe has a lot of viewers, but he too must adhere to that policy." However, despite having checked all episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience so far and had some controversial topics (especially false information about the COVID-19 vaccine and how to treat it), Spotify has done so. They do not meet the criteria to be removed.
In other words, when Neil Young performed a song repatriation and became a hot topic, he said, "We have deleted more than 20,000 podcast episodes about the new coronavirus so far," but Logan's podcasts are all 20,000. It means that there was no problem than the episode of. CEO Ek also acknowledged that Spotify was late in publishing its content policy and explained in its performance report that it was "should have done so sooner". On the other hand, he believes that there is no "cancellation" or "customer outflow" in this case for Spotify. The CEO said these numbers usually appear months later rather than days. In addition, Joe Rogan promised to cover a wide range of opinions in future episodes in his apology post on Instagram. You have to watch the upcoming episodes to see if that will happen.
Also, the artists leaving Spotify were followed by Graham Nash with Neil Young, but on Wednesday this was joined by David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and Crosby Stills & Nash (CS & N, CSN & Y). ) However, we have issued a joint statement that we do not want to provide songs to Spotify.
By the way, even if the artist announces that the song will be withdrawn, the song may not be withdrawn from Spotify immediately. Because there are various rights involved. In the case of Neil Young, Warner Music and others respected his judgment and the deletion was done immediately, but Joni Mitchell, who followed Young, has expressed his intention to delete the song, but still (at least in Japan). ) Spotify has a catalog left. Rosanne Cash, the daughter of the great country singer Johnny Cash, who has also been active as a country singer, "absolutely agrees" with Neil Young's actions, but still has her own rights due to rights issues. I told Rolling Stone magazine that I couldn't remove it.
Cash is that legendary artists have strong opinions and may be able to manage rights, but many artists below mid-career and artists with a short career are from the number of views on the platform. He says he makes a living from some of his earnings and often cannot, even if he wants to agree with Young.
In some cases, the label or other person may have the actual handling authority for the music, not the artist. She said Cash said those artists were at least expressing their opinions with the hashtag #DeleteSpotify.
For example, the American rock band Belly, which was active in the 1990s and is now disbanded, wanted to remove songs from Spotify in favor of Neil Young's ideas, but due to current song rights. He told the Washington Post that he didn't have permission to do that and was forced to change the band's icon and page banner to the message "Delete Spotify."
Source: Spotify
Coverage: CNN Entertainment
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