Spotify Faces Boycott Calls Over Royalties, Trump Inauguration Donation. Published Jan 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM EST. By . Marni Rose McFall is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K.

Two posts on social media calling for a boycott of Spotify have now gone viral, highlighting the royalties and highlighting the donation to Trump's inauguration.

For the record, Spotify earned record-high sales in 2024. The company’s controversial CEO, Daniel Ek, is currently earning substantially more than the highest-streamed artists on the Spotify ...

Neil Young is ending his two-year Spotify boycott. The celebrated singer is returning his music to the audio giant after Joe Rogan signed a $250m deal to make his podcast available on multiple ...

On the latter front: Billboard reports Spotify is hosting a Songwriter Of The Year Grammy party on January 28, but four out of the five songwriters nominated in that category will not be in ...

Mitchell, 80, removed her songs from Spotify in 2022 in solidarity with Young to boycott Joe Rogen’s controversial podcast. At the time, Mitchell wrote a post on her official site titled “I ...

How Spotify beat the artist boycotts Taylor Swift, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Thom Yorke have all pulled their music from the streaming giant. Eventually, all of them gave up.

Neil Young said he will allow his music to return to Spotify, two years after the singer pulled his catalog over opposition to the streaming service’s relationship with podcaster Joe Rogan.

Earnings Results Spotify stock slammed by light subscription forecast, but CEO says Joe Rogan was not the reason Music-streaming service topped $10 billion in revenue for the first time in 2021 ...

In early 2022, Neil Young removed his music from Spotify, in protest of the streaming service being the exclusive home of The Joe Rogan Experience.Recently, though, the exclusivity came to an end ...