Earlier this month Spotify rolled out a new content and conduct policy to clamp down on hateful content on the platform. Interestingly, the new policy also outlined guidelines for artists and revealed that the platform would stop promoting artists who engage in inappropriate behavior in the real world.
In keeping with the changes, Spotify removed artist R. Kelly’s songs from its auto-generated and editorial playlists, due to his history of sex ad violent crimes. Rapper XXXTentacion’s tracks were also pulled from Spotify’s popular Rap Caviar playlists, after a video of the rapper assaulting a pregnant woman surfaced online.
