{"id":74963,"date":"2025-08-18T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74963\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:41:06","slug":"godspeed-you-black-emperor-have-pulled-their-music-from-streaming-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74963\/","title":{"rendered":"Godspeed You! Black Emperor have pulled their music from streaming platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Godspeed You! Black Emperor<\/a> have removed their music from Spotify<\/a> and other streaming platforms.<\/p>\n

The Canadian experimental rock band have removed their entire discography from Spotify<\/a>, but have also pulled their releases from Tidal and Apple Music. At the time of writing, only two albums\u00a01998\u2019s \u2018F# A# \u221e\u2019 and 2000\u2019s \u2018Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas To Heaven\u2019 are available on Apple Music<\/a>, while Tidal has been wiped clean.<\/p>\n

While the band have yet to formally address the withdrawal of their releases from streaming platforms, a rep for Kranky Records \u2013 on which the two aforementioned albums were released \u2013 confirmed to Pitchfork<\/a> that the Godspeed You! Black Emperor albums are in the process of being removed from Apple Music.<\/p>\n

The rep said in a statement: \u201cKranky has always granted artists control over how their music is presented and disseminated.\u201d The only platform on which Godspeed You! Black Emperor\u2019s music is still available is Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GodspeedGodspeed You Black Emperor \u2013 CREDIT: Yannick Grandmont<\/p>\n

Godspeed You! Black Emperor are now the latest band to remove their music from Spotify, joining King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard<\/a>, Xiu Xiu<\/a> and Deerhoof<\/a>. All three bands have cited Spotify CEO Daniel Ek\u2019s investments in Helsing, a Munich-based company creating drones and artificial intelligence for military operations, as their reason for leaving the platform.<\/p>\n

In recent years, people have been divided about streaming platforms and their impact on the music industry. In 2024, for example,\u00a0Ek sparked backlash for his comments relating to the cost of \u201ccreating content\u201d<\/a>, with countless users and\u00a0musicians describing him as \u201cout of touch\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ek later\u00a0walked back on his comments, explaining in an apology that he had no intention of dismissing the struggles faced by musicians and using the \u201creductive\u201d label of \u201ccontent\u201d<\/a>. The negative response to this was heightened as, around the same time, it was confirmed that\u00a0Spotify had made profits of over \u20ac1billion (\u00a3860m), following staff being laid off and subscription prices rising<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The streaming platform also received criticism after it\u00a0officially demonetised all songs on the platform with less than 1,000 streams<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0making it harder for artists to generate royalties from their music<\/a>\u00a0and restricting new artists looking to crack the music industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Godspeed You! Black Emperor have removed their music from Spotify and other streaming platforms. The Canadian experimental rock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,38469,128,3584,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-74963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-experimental","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}