This Recording Industry Executive Caps Musicians Who Make Physical Albums During The Climate Crisis 'Munafik'

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JAKARTA - A senior music executive said artists who advocate for climate change continue to produce munific' physical albums.

Sir Robin Millar is a senior record industry executive who also produced albums such as Sade's 'Diamond Life' and Everything's 'Eden'. She is also one of the founders of management firm Blue Raincoat Music, which currently lists Skin and Phoebe Bridgers among her clients.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Sir Millar said he believed the production of physical footage such as a disk and CD should be removed.

"I am confused because no large record company has the support of the best-selling artist to stop making physical albums," he said.

Millar further argues that the quality of digital songs is equivalent to a disk, and the artist tour which also causes damage to the planet can be played online. In addition, the disk and CD are packed with trees and pieces of plastic'.

"How can a person stand up and say'save the planet?' he said. 'Artis is so bad because it joins a hypocritical.'

In 2019, NME investigated how artists can overcome climate change, highlighting the production of black disks as an aspect of the problem.

They spoke with Chiara Badiali, who works in a London-based charity that helps the industry improve environmental sustainability of Julie's Bicycle. Badiali says the dwarf' is actually a small part of the industry if you look at its production footprint.

It is known, in 2019, the disk contributed 3.6 percent of worldwide music sales.

People focus on that because it is very visible and real. From a carbon footprint perspective, environmental impacts cannot be compared to the impact of travel. It's so small that it's basically just an instant."

However, he noticed room for improvement in the sector: Many are considering how to reduce the amount of energy used to suppress a piece of the disk.

"There are people who experiment with the actual raw material of the disk. But that's where it is very complicated because currently the disk is one of the best media we have found to do what we want. The biggest problem is: what happens at the end of its life? " he said.

Since then, companies such as Bicep, Angel Olsen, and Black Country, New Road have worked together to appear in the release of the first bioplastic disk. Michael Stipe of REM also released music on the first commercially available pyroplastic disk in 2022.