Listen "COVID-19, lockdown, Lizzo"
Episode Synopsis
CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting the music business and the financial support available to musicians and others who work in the industry, and the latest filing in the dispute over who owns a stake in Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts'. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.
STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Self-employed who make up 72% of the music industry being let down by government as COVID-19 crisis grows, say trade bodies
• Ivors Academy proposes using unallocated streaming royalties to support music-makers hit by COVID-19 crisis
• Spotify, PRS and Help Musicians launch financial support initiatives for music-makers struggling amid COVID-19 outbreak
• Music industry welcomes UK government’s COVID-19 support for self-employed
ALSO MENTIONED
• Coronamusicians.info
• Musicians' Union Hardship Fund
• Spotify COVID-19 Music Relief
• PRS Emergency Relief Fund
• Help Musicians Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund
• MMF Song Royalties Guide
• Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin
• Buy the Dissecting The Digital Dollar book
STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Self-employed who make up 72% of the music industry being let down by government as COVID-19 crisis grows, say trade bodies
• Ivors Academy proposes using unallocated streaming royalties to support music-makers hit by COVID-19 crisis
• Spotify, PRS and Help Musicians launch financial support initiatives for music-makers struggling amid COVID-19 outbreak
• Music industry welcomes UK government’s COVID-19 support for self-employed
ALSO MENTIONED
• Coronamusicians.info
• Musicians' Union Hardship Fund
• Spotify COVID-19 Music Relief
• PRS Emergency Relief Fund
• Help Musicians Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund
• MMF Song Royalties Guide
• Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin
• Buy the Dissecting The Digital Dollar book
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