BMG to review historical record contracts due to “shameful treatment of black artists”
music industry’s recent ‘Black Out Tuesday’, which prompted a leading music manager to suggest ways forward to improve inequality for artists of colour.Ty Stiklorius, who manages the likes of Kelis, John Legend and Erykah Badu, wrote in an open letter: “If the music industry wants to support black lives, labels and platforms can start with amending contracts, distributing royalties, diversifying boardrooms, and retroactively paying back all the black artists, and their families, they have built their empires on.”As Music Business Worldwide reports, BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch confirmed a review in an email sent out to managers and performers.It reads: “Mindful of the music industry’s record of shameful treatment of black artists, we have begun a