Help fix the Canadian music industry!
Demand that bloated streaming
services pay musicians fairly.
Help fix the
Canadian
music industry!
Demand that bloated streaming services pay musicians fairly.
While musicians struggle to make a dime, big streaming services like Spotify get bloated on record profits. It’s time to burst their bubble. If we want the artists we love to keep producing great music, we need to raise our voices.
The problem isn’t you—it’s streaming services
This isn’t about giving up the music you love or rejecting the convenience of on-demand streaming. It’s about making sure that streaming revenues are distributed fairly to the musicians who create the music in the first place.
That monthly subscription charge you pay for Spotify? Most of it just goes to the corporation and their billionaire CEO.
Precious little actually goes to the musicians who deserve it. Artists who own the rights to their music get around $0.003 per stream! That means an independent musician in say, Saskatoon, needs twelve million streams a year to make a living wage.
But what about the drummer, the keyboard player, the guitarist, the saxophone player? There are so many musicians who make your favourite records. Yet online streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify do not pay them a cent. It doesn’t have to be this way. ACTRA RACS has distributed millions of dollars in royalties on behalf of recording artists—but under current legislation, online streaming services are exempt from paying out a thing.
It wasn’t always this bad
For decades, the music industry has profited at the expense of musicians. But the truth is that things are worse than ever. In fact, 25 years ago, legislation was put in place to make sure that all performers would receive revenues from various types of airplay, from radio—both terrestrial and satellite—to broadcasts in bars, restaurants, gyms, and nightclubs.
Streaming services have changed all of that. Why?
- Streaming is now the dominant way music is consumed.
- There’s no legislation in place to force streaming services to pay musicians fairly.
Canada’s Copyright Act hasn’t been updated since 1997! This has allowed streaming services to get away with robbery.
Canadian musicians need revenue to build their careers
Making it as a musician has never been easy—but imagine if Canadian icons like Alanis Morissette, Drake, Celine Dion, the Tragically Hip, or Neil Young couldn’t afford to release their songs. Without new sources of income to make up for the ones that streaming has replaced, the next generation of artists will be left behind.
That’s why we need to take action and ensure artists earn a living wage. Let’s burst the streaming service profit bubble, and save Canadian music!
How YOU can help
Send an email to the Canadian Government demanding they update the Copyright Act to make sure streaming services pay musicians fairly. We’ve already drafted an email for you. All you have to do is enter your info and hit send.
If thousands of people email our government, they will be forced to pay attention and take action.
The musicians we love deserve to get paid fairly. Tell the Government of Canada to fix our music industry now!
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