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by encryptluks2 1603 days ago
I am not particularly fond of Joe Rogan, but I respect Rogan's principles a lot more than Neil Young. Neil Young wanted to make a political statement and the media ran with it to try to pressure Spotify into breaking a large multi-million dollar contract. Neil Young's music on Spotify is prob worth very little. I'd be surprised if Neil Young was making a $2k/mo from Spotify. Neil Young had very little to lose by making this political statement to help the media, which I'm guessing he prob got some money from the attention of pro-vax people that wanted to try to censor Rogan and thought by supporting Young that they were going to be able to have any pull.
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morsch 1603 days ago
At least 6 million monthly listens at $0.00331 per listen is about $20k per month, so you're off by an order of magnitude. Still not terrible for a wild guess based on nothing. My numbers may be wrong for all kinds of reasons. Young himself apparently said it's 60% of his streaming revenue.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

https://www.planetarygroup.com/do-artists-get-paid-every-tim...

https://mobile.twitter.com/jclarachan/status/148646182068449...

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jjulius 1603 days ago
>Neil Young had very little to lose by making this political statement to help the media, which I'm guessing he prob got some money from the attention of pro-vax people that wanted to try to censor Rogan and thought by supporting Young that they were going to be able to have any pull.

This was hilarious, thanks for the laugh! :)

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tmcw 1603 days ago
Your anti-vax comment history indicates that you may be particularly fond of Joe Rogan.
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dang 1602 days ago
Crossing into personal attack is not ok here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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encryptluks2 1603 days ago
Your bias is predictable. I actually lean left and do support peoples choice, just not mandates. I am not a big fan of Joe Rogan, but you can believe whatever helps you sleep at night. You can think I'm a racist Nazi Trump supporter if it helps you build images in your mind of what you think people that have different thoughts of you must be like.
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dang 1602 days ago
If you continue to use HN primarily for flamewar and/or ideological battle, we are going to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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