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Raye Isn’t Letting Stolen Song Books Slow Down the Making of Her Next Album: ‘I Will Relentlessly Pursue Creating Music I Love’
Raye defines the value of a songwriter after getting her songbooks stolen and having to restart her sophomore album.
The experience has transformed Raye into a leading advocate for songwriters, and her words and actions inspired Variety to honor her with the Hitmakers Triple Threat of the Year award (singer-songwriter-champion). On the stage of the Brits, she used one of her acceptance speeches to call out the high-powered people in the room — which was filled with label chiefs and other top executives — to share master-recording income with songwriters. Raye offers more than a few solutions to the issue: “You can grant them net royalty points – whatever you would spend on a music video, on marketing a song, on plugging it to radio; take all of that and give it to everyone involved so they get to eat and profit from their work.”
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