Petition to Fix Streaming Receives Over 15,000 Signatures

Thanks to your collective call, backed by lobbying work by the MU and others, the cross-party Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee is calling on Government to investigate streaming.

And more people than ever before are talking about fair pay and streaming, on social media and in the press. Highlights include:

• Pitchfork exploring how musicians are fighting for streaming pay during the pandemic and working together to create change
• Wired speaking to #BrokenRecord’s Tom Gray about the challenges of the current model
• Huffington Post looking at artists responses – did you know that Electrelance earn less than £5 for their 75,000+ plays a month?

Take action now

Add your voice to the call – sign the petition to #FixStreaming and keep music alive.

Already signed the petition? Ask four friends to sign it too. If everyone reading this asks four friends to sign the petition today, we could get to 75,000 signatures overnight.

The more people who sign the petition to #FixStreaming and keep music alive, the stronger our collective call.

This is long overdue and needs to change, please sign/share! #fixstreaming #sortitout https://t.co/Vc2yX5aOc0

— The Ramonas (@Ramonas_uk) August 9, 2020

Thanks to @tasminlittle for highlighting the campaign to #FixStreaming and keep music alive!

She has 755,000 monthly listeners, at least 5m to 6m streams every 6 months - and gets paid less than £13 for it.

Sound familiar? Sign the petition > https://t.co/0P51RVt6kr https://t.co/UbXpY8VaKZ

— Musicians' Union (@WeAreTheMU) May 19, 2020

“ It pays artists and song writers very badly"@KTTunstall explains why she thinks music streaming needs to change.

Find out more about BBC Rethink 👉 https://t.co/HeKYFI6gvU pic.twitter.com/5Nz5IChwJQ

— BBC Radio 5 Live (@bbc5live) June 25, 2020