Twitter was dotted with the announcements of listeners saying they were canceling their subscriptions, and screenshots from Spotifys app showed a message from its customer support team saying that it was getting a lot of contacts to may be slow to respond. Spotify has not said how many customers canceled their subscriptions. While few other major artists have spoken out so far, Youngs stance has resonated widely with fans. On Spotify, Mitchell is listed as having 3.7 million monthly listeners, with two of her songs ∻ig Yellow Taxi and ∺ Case of You getting over 100 million streams. Both are Canadians who helped lead the singer-songwriter revolution in Southern California in the late 1960s and 1970s. Young and Mitchell have a deep history together. Mitchell is the first major artist to follow Young, after a couple of days of speculation and rumors on social media. The scientists wrote in a public letter that the program promoted several falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines. Robert Malone, an infectious-disease expert. He did so after a group of hundreds of scientists, professors and public health experts had asked Spotify to take down an episode of Rogans show from Dec. Spotify took Youngs music down Wednesday, two days after he posted an open letter calling for its removal as a protest against The Joe Rogan Experience, Spotifys most popular podcast, which has been criticized for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines. The debate has also brought into relief questions about how much power artists wield to control distribution of their work, and the perennially thorny issue of free speech online. Her statement adds fuel to a small but growing revolt over Spotify, with few major artists speaking out but fans commenting widely on social media. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives, she wrote. Mitchell, an esteemed singer-songwriter of songs like ∻ig Yellow Taxi, and whose landmark album ∻lue just had its 50th anniversary, posted a brief statement on her website Friday saying that she would remove her music from the streaming service. Joni Mitchell said Friday that she would remove her music from Spotify, joining Neil Young in his protest against the streaming service over its role in giving a platform to COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.

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