Audio streaming service Spotify has been making headlines this week after folk rock legend Neil Young asked the service to remove his music.

The Canadian-American songwriter took umbrage to episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast Spotify reportedly paid around US$100 million to host exclusively on their platform.

Young said the podcast aired “dangerous life-threatening COVID-19 falsehoods”.

Today on Please Explain, senior culture writer Karl Quinn joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the controversy between Neil Young and Spotify.

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Audio streaming service Spotify has been making headlines this week after folk rock legend Neil Young asked the service to remove his music.


The Canadian-American songwriter took umbrage to episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast Spotify reportedly paid around US$100 million to host exclusively on their platform.


Young said the podcast aired “dangerous life-threatening COVID-19 falsehoods”.


Today on Please Explain, senior culture writer Karl Quinn joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the controversy between Neil Young and Spotify.

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