Sony/ATV Publishing CEO Martin Bandier called the decision “a clear defeat for songwriters” and “woefully inadequate.” Here he outlined the MusicBus initiative which he summed up as calling for “Fair market pay to all music creators across all platforms.” The music industry organization plans this year to extend its political outreach with a “Grammys in my district” day in which 22,000 members of The Recording Academy will be encouraged to “bring music to their legislators’ local offices and make the case for fairness for music creators.”Īll this comes in the wake of a recent court battle between Pandora and ASCAP in which a federal rate court essentially maintained the status quo upholding the amount the digital radio service pays the performance rights organization.
Last week, too, Grammys president and CEO Neil Portnow wrote an op-ed in Roll Call calling for legislation to address copyright issues. By contrast, Rogan, whose podcast was made a Spotify exclusive in 2020, signed a deal with the streamer reported to be worth more than $100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.The 65+ Best Advent Calendars for Counting Down to the Holidays Last year, the New York Times reported that Spotify’s payout rate was estimated to be a half-cent per stream, a rate often split among record companies and artists.Įarlier this week, R&B artist India Arie said she was pulling her music from Spotify due to offensive comments Rogan made about race on an episode of his podcast – she also complained that Spotify does not pay its artists fairly. But how about paying artists for their work?”Īrtists have long taken issue with what they see as insufficient payment from Spotify. “There’s this hashtag going around, ‘Delete Spotify,’” she said. (In response to complaints of misinformation on its platform, Spotify said it would add content advisories to podcast episodes in which Covid-19 is discussed.) If users stop using Spotify or switch to a different streaming service, artists are still reliant on streams – millions of them – to make a living. Rather than putting the onus on musicians to pull their own work, Cash said, the public should put pressure on Spotify to monitor its content and pay artists more fairly. Joe Rogan responds to backlash from Spotify artists Joe Rogan exits the octagon following the women's flyweight fight between Miranda Maverick and Erin Blanchfield during the UFC 269 event at T-Mobile Arena on Decemin Las Vegas. “There are a lot of younger artists who are starting out can’t do it, or it would be sacrificing their income.” “These are digital platforms where they make a living, as paltry as it is,” she said. It’s also not always financially possible for artists to pull their music from Spotify, Cash said. Other artists, who have expressed support for artists like Young, are restricted in how much control they have over their music: ’90s rock group Belly displayed a “Delete Spotify” banner on their artist page because they can’t remove their music under their current contract, the Washington Post reported. “I wish they would explain how they were able to do that and why,” Cash told Rolling Stone.Ĭash said fans have tweeted at her waiting to see if she’ll pull her music from Spotify or help younger artists do the same, which she said “doesn’t make sense” because she’s not the sole rights holder of her music. Spotify wants Joe Rogan and every musician. Joe Rogan introduces fighters during the UFC 269 ceremonial weigh-in at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Decemin Las Vegas, Nevada. Nash’s request to remove his solo music was initially reported Tuesday.) (Young’s former bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash also announced Wednesday that they wanted their music – solo recordings and their work as Crosby, Stills Nash & Young – taken off the platform, too. Young and Mitchell are “legacy artists,” Cash said, who “have the clout to get their labels to agree to pull their work” off Spotify. Rosanne Cash, speaking to Rolling Stone, said that while she “absolutely agree” with Young’s choice to remove his music from the streaming service, it’s “not viable for most artists” to do the same because they’re often less powerful than Young and Mitchell, don’t always own the rights to their work and often rely on streamers like Spotify to share their work and make money. But it’s not as easy for other stars, even those who’ve been in the music business for decades, to follow suit. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell’s decision to pull their music from Spotify after podcaster Joe Rogan spread Covid-19 misinformation on the platform has been largely met with support from fellow artists.
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