Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“Cheesin’,” the charity single released at the beginning of the global pandemic in 2020, has raised more than $175,000 for MusiCares, the song’s distributor announced on Wednesday.
The song, a collaboration between Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, Still Woozy, Sophie Meiers, Claud, Melanie Faye, and HXNS was released via JJ Corsini’s label, Slowplay, in partnership with Republic Records/ Imperial.Since the song’s release, 100 percent of net profits from every stream and download has been donated to MusiCares, the Recording Academy’s charity that supports artists and those in the music community.
The MusiCares Covid relief effort was the organization’s largest and longest-running specific relief effort in its 30-year-plus history.
Between March 2020 and July 2021, MusiCares’ Covid relief efforts reached 38,000 people and their families with over $29 million distributed to people in need in over 3,500 cities across the country.
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