He also pledges $100 million towards “licensing, development and marketing of music (artists and songwriters) and audio content from historically marginalized groups”.įebruary 5 - JREMissing (opens in new tab), a site that tracks the podcast, reported that 113 episodes of the Joe Rogan experience had been pulled from Spotify.įebruary 5 - Rogan posts a video to Instagram (opens in new tab) in which he apologizes for his use of racial slurs in past podcast episodes, saying that “I certainly wasn’t trying to be racist”.įebruary 4 - Singer-songwriter India Arie posted an Instagram compilation video (opens in new tab) of Rogan using the N-word 24 times in episodes of the podcast that predate his exclusivity deal with Spotify. “While I strongly condemn what Joe has said and I agree with his decision to remove past episodes from our platform, I realize some will want more.” Ek said.

February 7 - Rumble Inc., an online video platform popular among US conservatives, publicly offers Joe Rogan a $100 million deal to leave Spotify (opens in new tab).įebruary 7 - Neil Young urges Spotify workers to leave the company “before it eats up your soul”, taking aim at CEO Daniel Ek in a blog post (opens in new tab).įebruary 6 - Daniel Ek tells employees that Rogan’s use of racial slurs were “incredibly hurtful”, but that “silencing Joe is not the answer” in a memo (opens in new tab).

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