musicFIRST has launched the Music Equity Motion marketing campaign in partnership with Dionne Warwick. The grassroots effort goals to make sure the voices of music makers are heard within the struggle to safe compensation for AM/FM radio performs.
AM/FM radio is the one music platform in america that doesn’t pay artists for using their recordings. The Music Equity Motion marketing campaign will present a platform for music artists and their followers to raise their voices in help of the American Music Equity Act (AMFA)—a bipartisan effort to make sure music artists obtain truthful compensation when their recordings are used.
“Everybody deserved to be paid for his or her work. Interval. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. That’s a bedrock American worth that most individuals on this nation stand by. And that’s why artists throughout genres and generations—from Frank Sinatra to Widespread to Randy Travis, Becky G, and so many others—have been talking out in help of truthful pay for AM/FM radio performs for many years,” provides Dionne Warwick.
“This injustice has gone on for much too lengthy. I’ve been combating for the reason that ‘80s, and others have been combating lengthy earlier than me. It’s time to lastly proper this fallacious. I urge my fellow music makers and music lovers to hitch me in calling on Congress to go the American Music Equity Act.”
The launch of the Music Equity Motion marketing campaign coincides with Music Equity Consciousness month, which is an annual effort by music creators in November. They purpose to carry consideration to a decades-long injustice that denies artists truthful pay for play on AM/FM radio stations in america.
The AMFA was re-introduced in 2023 by Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). The laws if handed would lastly require massive broadcast companies to pay efficiency royalties to creators for AM/FM performs—not simply streaming platforms. The invoice additionally contains broad exemptions for small school and non-commercial radio stations.
“The US is the one democratic nation on the planet the place artists will not be paid when their music is performed on AM/FM radio,” says Senator Mark Pryor, Co-Chairman of the musicFIRST coalition. “We’re at present lumped in with the likes of Iran and North Korea in relation to perpetuating this injustice—and that’s not the kind of firm that America ever needs to maintain.”
In keeping with a current ballot commissioned by musicFIRST, roughly 6 in 10 voters (59% say they might help Congress passing a brand new legislation that might require broadcasters to pay artists when their music is performed on AM/FM radio, such because the AMFA. Solely 15% wouldn’t help such a legislation.