This is a big one. In recent months, a number of artists have removed their music from Spotify in response to CEO Daniel Ek investing $700 million in the AI military startup Helsing. Now, Bristol trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack have become the latest act to boycott Spotify. Most of the artists who have announced the removal of their music from the streaming service are independent. Massive Attack, like temporary Spotify boycotter Neil Young before them, are major-label artists. On Spotify, they have nearly eight million monthly listeners. Massive Attack have been vocal about their opposition to Israel’s campaign of genocide and to militarism in general, and they’re putting their money where their mouth is.
