Barry Manilow quashes rumours of eradicating his music from Spotify

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Grammy winner Barry Manilow has quashed down rumours of him eradicating his music from Spotify, following what fellow iconic musician Neil Young did earlier this week.

“I recently heard a rumour about me and Spotify. I don’t know where it started, but it didn’t start with me or anyone who represents me,” the singer tweeted on Friday.

I just lately heard a rumor about me and Spotify. I don’t know the place it began, nevertheless it didn’t begin with me or anybody who represents me.
— Barry Manilow (@barrymanilow) January 28, 2022
Rumours of the ‘Mandy’ artist pulling his music off from Spotify began doing the rounds on the web after actor Debra Messing mistakenly tagged Manilow as a substitute of Neil Young in her tweet thanking the artist for protesting Spotify’s dealing with of misinformation coming from Joe Rogan’s podcast, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience.’

Young moved to Amazon Music on Wednesday after his music was taken down from Spotify in protest of Rogan, with the artist saying that he “could not continue to support Spotify’s life-threatening misinformation to the music-loving public.”

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the podcast host has just lately confronted pushback from listeners and medical professionals over a late December episode that featured a identified vaccine sceptic who shared a baseless concept that folks have been “hypnotized” to consider details about COVID-19 and in contrast the present pandemic insurance policies to Nazi Germany.

“We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon,” a Spotify spokesperson mentioned Wednesday about Young’s departure from the platform.