Roger Daltrey says the music industry has been “stolen” from artists
nme.comRoger Daltrey has said he believes that the music industry has been “stolen” from artists.During a recent interview with The Independent, the frontman of The Who claimed that the band’s 2019 album ‘WHO’ left him £10,000 out of pocket. “Musicians cannot earn a living in the record industry anymore,” Daltrey told the publication.“That is ridiculous, and they’re being robbed blind by streaming and the record companies, because the old deals with record companies that existed in the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, they’re still working on the same percentage breaks.”He continued: “And of course, they don’t do any work.
They just press a button and it goes out on digital, whereas before they had to manufacture, they had to distribute, they had to do all that stuff.
They’re doing bugger all and taking all the money, and the musicians are getting nothing.“Our music industry, I think, has been stolen.
I think we really do have to be concerned when young musicians can’t earn a living writing music.”Daltrey added: “The streaming companies pay so little in the beginning and then the record companies take 85, 90 per cent of that.
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