It’s hard, I don’t know what we are supposed to do because they have all the power and somehow all of the artists have all agreed.”Īnother young musician, Harrison Rhys said the Spotify deal with he Prince and his woke wife was an “unethical kick in the teeth.” Rhys, who headlines gigs and has had his music play on the BBC, told the paper: “I believe what Spotify have done is unethical, we are only being paid £0.0038 per stream but they are able to pay out what is probably a multi-million dollar fee to Harry and Meghan. “I don’t get paid from Spotify, it’s never broken even from the money I used to put songs on Spotify. “I’ve been writing songs since I was 12 years-old,” singer-songwriter Callum Gardner told the Star. Many were especially irked when Spotify boss Horacio Gutierrez told Parliament the Sussexes virtue signaling podcast deal created a “virtuous cycle” that help struggling musicians by getting more people on the site. Musicians across the pond are fuming over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s megabucks $25 million deal to produce feel-good, woke podcasts for Spotify.įamed musicians including Paul McCartney, Chris Martin, Kate Bush, Robert Plant and Stevie Nicks called on the UK government this week to reform the way musicians are paid when their songs are streamed online – with many being paid less than a penny per stream. Spotify inked a $25 million deal for exclusive rights to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's podcast.
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