BMG Promises to Review All Contracts ‘Mindful of the Music Industry’s Shameful Treatment of Black Artists’
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variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn the wake of the protests around George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, many music companies have promised to donate thousands or millions of dollars to Black-empowering organizations.
Yet the music industry has a long history of unfair business arrangements, particularly with artists of color, and BMG has taken the music industry’s recent initiatives a step further by pledging to review all of its contracts “Mindful of the music industry’s record of shameful treatment of black artists.”While the move is in many respects easier for the German-based company, which launched its music division in 2008 and has relatively few Black artists in its roster, than it is for U.S.-based labels whose.
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