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Musicians tell MPs streaming payments are “threatening the future of music”

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Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah and Gomez‘ Tom Gray have told MPs that streaming payments are “threatening the future of music.”MPs are currently examining the economic impact that music streaming is having on artists, record labels and the wider music industry in a new inquiry.The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee are looking into the issue, with the first evidence session for the ‘Economics of music streaming’ inquiry being held today (November 24).Garvey told the inquiry that whilst the comment “sounds very dramatic,” he went on to tell MPs that “if musicians can’t afford to pay the rent…we haven’t got tomorrow’s music in place.”Radiohead’s O’Brien went on to explain how the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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