Spotify has removed R. Kelly’s music from all of its curated playlists, days after The Washington Post published a feature detailing how many in the music industry turned a blind eye to allegations of sexual abuse of young women against the hit-making R&B singer.
His songs will no longer appear on any “Spotify owned and operated playlists and algorithmic recommendations such as Discover Weekly,” the company told The Post in a statement Thursday. “His music will still be available on the service, but Spotify will not actively promote it.”
The company uses a number of different automated playlists to promote various artists, such as the custom, automatically curated Discovery Weekly and Your Daily Mix, along with larger public playlists. RapCaviar, one popular public playlist on which R. Kelly has previously appeared, boasts almost 9.5 million followers. Users do not have the option to block certain artists from these playlists, meaning any artist’s music can conceivably pop on at any time.
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