- Chappell Roan won the best new artist at the Grammy 2025 Awards on Sunday.
- She used her speech to ask for record stamps to “treat its artists as valuable employees.”
- Here is why even Grammy -nominated musicians have problems in the music industry.
Chappell Roan never moves away from making a statement.
While accepting the award for the best new artist in the 67th Grammy Awards per year, “Good luck, Nena!” Singer highlighted the difficulties of building a stable career, much less profitable, in the music industry.
“I told myself that if I ever won a Grammy and could stop here in front of the most powerful music people, I would demand that the labels and industry that benefit millions of dollars of artists offer a habitable salary and medical care , Especially for developing artists, “Roan said.
Roan alluded to his first record contract with Atlantic, who signed her when she was a teenager, and the shock of being withdrawn by the label, a setback that forced her to leave Los Angeles and return to her native state of Missouri, where she worked in which she worked on which job. A drive-thru to keep itself.
“When they dropped me, I had zero work experience in my belt, and like most people, I had … quite difficult to find a job in the pandemic,” Roan said.
“The record stamps need to treat their artists as valuable employees with insurance and salary protection and habitable health,” Roan continued. “Tags, we have you, but do you have us?”
The problems that worried Roan’s speech are more widespread in the industry than many fans can realize.
As Business Insider previously reported, modern artists face a seemingly endless variety of bureaucratic, strategic and financial obstacles to a living, from tour costs or record an album to the innumerable hours of self -promotion of social networks. and scarce payments of transmission giants such as Spotify.
In fact, the companion nominated for Roan’s best artist, Raye, told BI last June that he was still “breaking the equilibrium point.”
The 27 -year -old British vocalist, who recently worked with Beyoncé in “Cowboy Carter” and opened the tour of multimillionaire times of Taylor Swift, explained that the musicians face invisible expenses at each step. This is especially true for those who renounce the major label system.
“He is paid X to do coachella, and then spend twice the amount they pay to do the program in the program itself, because you want to make a great show,” Raye offered as an example. “And you have to pay the musicians, the singers and all they deserve.”
Like Roan, Raye has a problematic story with record stamps. She killed Polydor executives, who signed her at an early age, and publicly asked the seal to release her from her contract in 2021. The company forced, and Raye launched her first album as an independent artist, “My 21st Century Blues Blues Blues , “In 2023.
Roan found a different way to follow. After working to refine his trade and build an audience on Tiktok during the pandemic, Roan signed a new contract with the impression of the label founded by his producer, Daniel Nigro. Amusement Records distributed his debut album, “The Rise and Fall of A Midwest Princess” of 2023.
The album went up to No. 2 at Billboard 200 last year, only surpassed by Taylor Swift “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT“, and received a Grammy nomination for the album of the year.” Good luck, drool! “De Roan, she was also nominated for Song of the Year and best solo pop performance.
