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Barry Manilow quashes rumours of casting off his song from Spotify

Via ANI

WASHINGTON: Grammy winner Barry Manilow has quashed down rumours of him casting off his song from Spotify, following what fellow iconic musician Neil Younger did previous this week.

“I lately heard a hearsay about me and Spotify. I have no idea the place it began, nevertheless it did not get started with me or any person who represents me,” the singer tweeted on Friday.

I lately heard a rumor about me and Spotify. I don’t know the place it began, nevertheless it didn’t get started with me or any person who represents me.

— Barry Manilow (@barrymanilow) January 28, 2022

Rumours of the ‘Mandy’ artist pulling his song off from Spotify began doing the rounds on the web after actor Debra Messing mistakenly tagged Manilow as a substitute of Neil Younger in her tweet thanking the artist for protesting Spotify’s dealing with of incorrect information coming from Joe Rogan’s podcast, ‘The Joe Rogan Revel in.’

Younger moved to Amazon Song on Wednesday after his song used to be taken down from Spotify in protest of Rogan, with the artist pronouncing that he “may just no longer proceed to strengthen Spotify’s life-threatening incorrect information to the music-loving public.”

As in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, the podcast host has not too long ago confronted pushback from listeners and clinical pros over a past due December episode that featured a identified vaccine sceptic who shared a baseless principle that folks were “hypnotized” to imagine info about COVID-19 and in comparison the present pandemic insurance policies to Nazi Germany.

“We feel sorry about Neil’s resolution to take away his song from Spotify, however hope to welcome him again quickly,” a Spotify spokesperson stated Wednesday about Younger’s departure from the platform.