Tim Burgess calls for reform to streaming payment model: “We have time to sort it”
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nme.comThe Charlatans‘ Tim Burgess has become the latest artist to speak out against purported inequalities in streaming payments.The singer’s comments come after a select committee of MPs were told last month that emerging artists are facing “massive competition” from bigger and classic acts on streaming services.Writing in a first-person piece for The Guardian, Burgess said: “The basic point is that the UK music industry contributed an estimated £5.8billion to the economy in 2019, but artists are maybe not seeing as much of that as they should.
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