business hours, Spotify, Apple and Amazon did not immediately respond to requests from Reuters seeking comment on whether they would be taking similar action over R Kelly's music available on their platforms. The MuteRKelly campaign, founded by two Black women in 2017 to try to remove the singer's music from the air waves, said on Twitter, "Waiting on you and you too etc."Ĭontacted outside of regular U.S. Kelly in accordance with our creator responsibility guidelines," a YouTube spokesperson told Reuters in a statement.
"We can confirm that we have terminated two channels linked to R. The catalog of his music will however be available on YouTube Music, YouTube's audio-streaming service, and the videos uploaded by other YouTube users will continue to be available. Two of his channels, RKellyTV and RKellyVevo, have been removed from one of the world's largest video platforms and the singer will no longer be able to create or own any other YouTube channel, YouTube said in a statement sent late on Monday, following Reuters' request for comment. Kelly was convicted by a federal jury in September in his sex trafficking trial, where prosecutors accused the singer of exploiting his stardom over a quarter-century to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex.
Kelly's channels from its video platform, distancing itself from the singer who was convicted of sex trafficking last month. Oct 5 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said it has removed R&B singer R.
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