Spotify, Amazon, Warner Music Group, and other major music companies are donating to coronavirus relief — but how do the acts stack up against meaningful measures elsewhere in the industry?
This week, the largest corporations in music — from streaming platforms like Spotify and Tidal to major labels like Warner Music Group and Universal to tech behemoths like Facebook — finally announced corporate initiatives aimed to help support artists and creators in the coming months. Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, SiriusXM/Pandora, and others announced a joint donation to the MusiCares
In the same way many critics have pointed out the coronavirus epidemic’s exposure of the structural flaws in America’s for-profit health care system, Erickson sees the crisis as a referendum on a music industry that’s been increasingly consolidated by a select few massive tech corporations in recent years.
Netflix set up a $100 million fund for coronavirus relief for the film industry, Music Business Worldwidereached out to major streaming platforms, the three major labels, radio conglomerates like iHeartMedia, and tech giants like Facebook and Amazon to get a sense of what charitable efforts the corporations were taking to help aid artists.
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