{"id":1256147,"date":"2022-01-30T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1256147"},"modified":"2022-01-30T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:53:39","slug":"cherry-picked-bullsh-twitter-users-responds-to-claims-spotify-lost-2-billion-following-neil-young-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cherry-picked-bullsh-twitter-users-responds-to-claims-spotify-lost-2-billion-following-neil-young-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cherry Picked Bullsh**\u2019: Twitter Users Responds To Claims Spotify Lost $2 Billion Following Neil Young Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcherry-picked-bullsh-twitter-users-responds-to-claims-spotify-lost-2-billion-following-neil-young-exit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1256147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Neil Young removed his music catalog from Spotify in a public protest against Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast last week, which resulted in both support and criticism from the public. Plenty of fans vowed to cancel their Spotify accounts in solidarity and no doubt some followed through with that threat. But now some Twitter users are crying foul over how mainstream media is reporting on the financial implications of the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpotify Lost More Than $2 Billion in Market Value After Neil Young Pulled His Music Over Joe Rogan\u2019s Podcast,\u201d a Variety headline announced Saturday. Many other publications had similar declarations, which appeared to link the two events. But the text of the article, commenters pointed out, led to different conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is cherry-picked bullsh**,\u201d Mediaite journalist John Ziegler <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zigmanfreud\/status\/1487503690827247617\">shared<\/a> alongside a chart of the overall stock situation for the company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market in general was way down this week, but in the last two days of trading, since they announced Young was gone and Rogan is staying, their stock is actually up slightly. You moronic hacks have no shame!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is cherry-picked bullshit. The market in general was way down this week, but in the last two days of trading, since they announced Young was gone and Rogan is staying, their stock is actually up slightly.<\/p>\n<p>You moronic hacks have no shame! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/duTagP9uRe\">pic.twitter.com\/duTagP9uRe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zigmanfreud\/status\/1487503690827247617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoint to when Neil Young pulled his music on this graph of their stock,\u201d another Twitter user quipped alongside a photo of the stock plummeting over a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou mean Spotify stock is down, kinda like the entire NASDAQ is down 20% in the same time frame? Is that Rogan\u2019s fault as well? Critical thinking fail. But then again you weren\u2019t really thinking at all, were you?\u201d someone else wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole market was down this past week. Did Tesla\u2019s stock also dip because a misguided old man pulled his music from Spotify?\u201d yet another Tweet said.<\/p>\n<p>The Variety writer admitted in the text of the article that Spotify stock was already in a severe downward spiral prior to Young\u2019s ultimatum and eventual follow-through.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be sure, Spotify\u2019s stock price was already on the slide \u2014 having plummeted 25% year-to-date as of January 25, the day before Young\u2019s catalog was pulled off Spotify,\u201d the article <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/digital\/news\/spotify-2-billion-market-cap-neil-young-joe-rogan-1235166798\/\">admits<\/a>. The writer also revealed that the stock rebounded on Friday with a 1% increase that reflected the overall market upturn. But anyone just reading the headline would assume that Young\u2019s departure had catastrophic consequences from a financial standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The drama began last week as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/they-can-have-rogan-or-young-not-both-neil-young-issues-spotify-an-ultimatum-threatens-pulling-his-music\">Young published an open letter<\/a> to his management team, stating \u201cI want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform. They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian-American musician accused Rogan of being guilty of spreading vaccine \u201cmisinformation\u201d and that Spotify was complicit in these actions by continuing to host the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world\u2019s largest podcast and has tremendous influence,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cSpotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rogan hosts the number one most listened to podcast on Spotify and has an exclusive multi-year distribution deal worth more than $100 million, Variety wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Variety writer speculated that other artists could follow suit with Young, which already happened once this week when singer Joni Mitchell decided to pull her music from the platform. But so far, those are the only two artists who have removed their music because of Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Young removed his music catalog from Spotify in a public protest against Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast last week, which resulted in both support and criticism from the public. Plenty of fans vowed to cancel their Spotify accounts in solidarity and no doubt some followed through with that threat. But now some Twitter users are crying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}