Neil Young removes music from Amazon in bid to save | Music News

Neil Young, the famend singer, has pulled his music from Amazon in an effort to “save America”. The artist announced this choice through a prolonged assertion on his weblog.

He declared that followers would no longer have access to his music via Amazon Music and criticized Jeff Bezos’ help of Donald Trump.

The 79-year-old musician inspired his followers to “buy local”, “support your community,” and “do the right thing”.

In his assertion, he penned: “Forget Amazon and Whole Foods [supermarket chain owned by Amazon]. Forget Facebook. Buy local. Buy direct. [Jeff] Bezos supports this government. It does not support you or me.

“The time is right here. Forget Amazon. Soon, my music won’t be there. It is simple to buy local. Support your group. Go to the local store.

Neil was referring to the US authorities shutdown, which resulted from the Republican and Democratic events’ failure to agree on a invoice funding authorities providers.

Neil lately exited social media, but didn’t specify whether or not he would also be eradicating bodily copies for sale from Amazon.

Three years in the past, the music icon pulled his tracks from Spotify in protest of the platform’s exclusive distribution of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. He was involved that the podcast was disseminating vaccine misinformation.

Joe Rogan’s podcast was solely out there on Spotify at the time. Despite this, the musician’s work reappeared on Spotify last yr as he said he could not take away all of his work from the web.

Neil issued another assertion at the time explaining why his music can be making a comeback. The announcement read: “My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at Spotify.

“I can’t just go away Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have little or no streaming outlet for music lovers. So I’ve returned to Spotify in honest hopes that Spotify’s sound high quality will improve and people will probably be ready to hear and really feel all the music as we made it.

“Qobuz and Tidal, where my music is presented, are all high-res as well.”

This yr, Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts headlined Glastonbury and topped the invoice at BST Hyde Park in London.