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Stereogum.com (May 21): Earlier this month Spotify announced that it would be removing R. Kelly and XXXTentacion’s music from its flagship playlists due to a new policy against “Hate Content & Hateful Conduct.”
...In the six days since XXXTentacion’s SAD! was removed from Spotify’s playlists...the track’s streams dropped 17 percent per day in the United States on average. That...could cost the rapper as much as $60,000 in revenue in a year...
R. Kelly’s streaming numbers, however, have actually increased...he averaged 6,584,000 weekly streams for the year. But from May 10 to May 16 he garnered 6,676,000 streams for the week...
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Stereogum.com (May 24): (The) move drew criticism from employees and prominent players in the music industry, including Kendrick Lamar, who argue that the policy will single out artists of color. Some opposing artists even threatened to remove their music from Spotify if the policy persisted...
XXXTentacion, who was charged for physically abusing a pregnant woman...(was one of)...the...initially...affected artists announced...Spotify will restore songs by XXXTentacion to their flagship playlists...The company is consulting civil-rights activists and music industry members to inform when and how to take the next step...(T)here are no plans to begin promoting R. Kelly again.
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Sounds like 3XT's "slippery slope list" trick worked -- If the work of Zeppelin, Ozzy, and James Brown (and/or everyone else on their respective record labels) were to pull out of Spotify in protest, it could get awfully quiet around there! And remember, you are not to take the "removing" part literally: no one has been censored or banned, just no longer profitably -- oops, I mean, actively promoted!