{"id":605664,"date":"2026-04-25T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:44:12","slug":"d4vd-quietly-dropped-by-label-and-song-collaborations-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605664\/","title":{"rendered":"D4vd Quietly Dropped by Label and Song Collaborations Pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLate last year, Interscope<\/a> Records quietly dropped D4vd<\/a> from its label, and in the wake of the singer\u2019s arrest for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez<\/a>, Universal Music Group has helped some of its artists who have collaborated with D4vd remove their songs from streaming platforms, Rolling Stone has learned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cRomantic Homicide\u201d singer, born David Anthony Burke, was charged Monday with first-degree murder in the killing of 14-year-old Rivas. The two were believed to have been in a relationship<\/a>, and the teen\u2019s dismembered and severely decomposed body was discovered in Burke\u2019s Tesla last September. Rivas was last seen alive going into Burke\u2019s Los Angeles home in late April 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd amid calls for streaming platforms to pull his music from their sites, YouTube has since demonetized his account, a spokesperson confirmed to Rolling Stone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve suspended this artist from the YouTube Partner Program in accordance with our Creator Responsibility<\/a> policy, following off-platform behavior that is harmful to YouTube\u2019s Community,\u201d a company spokesperson said Friday. \u201cAs a result, his channels can no longer earn money from YouTube.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBurke, 21, pleaded not guilty to the charges. His attorneys have said that their client \u201cdid not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and he was not the cause of her death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUntil Rivas\u2019 body was discovered, Burke\u2019s career was on the rise. An overnight success story, his love of the video game Fortnite led him to record music from his bedroom closet. By 2022, his songs \u201cRomantic Homicide\u201d and \u201cHere With Me\u201d were going viral on TikTok, earning him a record deal with Darkroom Records under the Interscope\/UMG umbrella. Burke released his debut EP, Petals to Thorns, in May 2023, and his debut studio album Withered in April 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter police began looking at Burke as a suspect, the record label quietly dropped Burke sometime last year. (Rolling Stone understands that UMG has no ownership or copyrights to Burke\u2019s music because his deal was structured as a licensing agreement. His music on streaming platforms now credits D4VD ENT., LLC.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tArtists who have collaborated with Burke have begun removing their songs from streaming platforms. Kali Uchis was among the first, pulling down their joint track \u201cCrashing,\u201d and was later followed by Holly Humberstone, Laufey and Damiano David. Rolling Stone understands UMG has helped facilitate that process for some artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tStreaming sites such as Spotify<\/a> and Apple Music are now facing calls to remove Burke\u2019s music entirely from its platforms, with music advocacy group Industry Blackout launching a petition<\/a> to that effect. \u201cThe music industry has a responsibility that goes beyond commerce. When an artist has been charged with the sexual abuse and murder of a minor, a child who was drawn into his orbit through his music and public persona, continuing to stream, promote, and profit from his catalog is a choice. It is not a neutral one,\u201d the group in its Change.org<\/a> petitions said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRepresentatives for Spotify, Apple News, and YouTube did not return Rolling Stone\u2019s request for comment regarding if the companies were considering removing Burke\u2019s music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late last year, Interscope Records quietly dropped D4vd from its label, and in the wake of the singer\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2160,28037,89930,88,263331,11710],"class_list":["post-605664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-controversy","tag-courts-and-crime","tag-d4vd","tag-entertainment","tag-interscope","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}