As A Result Of The COVID-19 Pandemic, Musicians Ask For Triple Royalties From Spotify

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JAKARTA - With the cancellation of a number of music events and festivals related to the COVID-19 pandemic or the corona virus, musicians are competing to provide different dishes; new music projects, home streaming shows, or reminding fans of the dangers of corona as did Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift. But another step was chosen by Evan Greer, a musician from Jamaica who asked Spotify to pay royalties up to three times.

Through the actionnetwork.org site, Greer wrote about the difficulties the musicians have had after many tours and festivals were canceled. He also noted that many musicians have lost their income and their futures are not clear. Greer compares the Bandcamp site to fundraising from what they donate to every purchase or download of an artist.

This petition page does not show who signed the petition so it is difficult to identify who felt the difficulty besides Evan Greer.

But Spotify doesn't do anything. According to him, it is times like these the company does its part of the job to help out. Greer asked Spotify to make this campaign permanent so that musicians living off music could be financed and asked for $ 500,000 for Sweet Relief, a California charity that provided financial assistance to artists and music industry workers during the viral crisis. corona.

Reporting from NME, Friday, March 20, Spotify representatives replied to The Guardian, "This is a challenge for the community of creators and we are working to help them through the MusiCares COVID-19 grant to provide the assistance needed."

According to them, Spotify has done its part in helping musicians increase. They claim to increase royalties by up to 44 percent through The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). They have never released how much it costs to pay artist royalties on Spotify but some artists have voiced royalties that have been getting lower in recent times.

Taylor Swift has said something similar regarding Spotify's royalties which are not in accordance with the provisions and at that time he won the battle.

Evan Greer is a Jamaican sidestream musician who has also worked as an activist. Reporting from his Spotify page, Greer released an album in 2019 titled she / her / they / them.