![]() The publication of the Select Committee’s recommendations was a watershed moment for music makers. Tom Gray has continued to build his #BrokenRecord campaign and between us we have gained the support of hundreds of high-profile artists and many cross-party MPs. ![]() ![]() Since then, they have heard written and oral evidence from platforms, labels, artists, songwriters, publishers, collecting societies and of course the MU and The Ivors Academy. In October 2020, the DCMS Select Committee announced that they would be launching an inquiry into the economics of music streaming. The petition received over 18,000 signatures. The Fix Streaming campaign began with a petition calling for a Government review of music streaming. We saw that music streaming wasn’t working for our members and we had to do something about it – it was a complex problem but one with many potential fixes. This was the catalyst for Fix Streaming and Broken Record. ![]() While streaming continued to boom and bring in record revenues during the pandemic, the majority of musicians and songwriters saw very little benefit from it. This article was jointly produced between MU Deputy General Secretary Naomi Pohl and Ivors Academy CEO Graham Davies.Īt the start of the Covid-19 crisis, when musicians and songwriters lost so much work and over 20,000 faced immediate financial hardship, it became clear that streaming royalties were insufficient and not playing their part in shoring up music makers’ livelihoods.
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