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Raye Calls for Better Songwriter Deals in Passionate BRIT Awards Acceptance Speech
British singer Raye made a forceful call for more-equitable songwriter deals during the acceptance speech for one of her record six BRIT Awards.
Yet obscured in all the headlines was the strong business statement she made on behalf of fellow songwriters, calling for them to receive a share of the master recording income of the songs on which they’re credited. “British music industry, please — I want to have a lovely, brief conversation about normalizing [business by] giving songwriters master royalty points,” she said, to cheers from Pinkpantheress and many others seen in the audience. The issue is a longstanding and forceful complaint from the songwriting community that has ramped up dramatically in recent months as streaming payment models are re-examined and updated amid the onset of AI.
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