COVID-19, lockdown, Lizzo - a podcast by Complete Music Update (CMU)

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting the music business and the financial support available to musicians and others who work in the industry, and the latest filing in the dispute over who owns a stake in Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts'. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.



STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK

• Self-employed who make up 72% of the music industry being let down by government as COVID-19 crisis grows, say trade bodies

• Ivors Academy proposes using unallocated streaming royalties to support music-makers hit by COVID-19 crisis

• Spotify, PRS and Help Musicians launch financial support initiatives for music-makers struggling amid COVID-19 outbreak

• Music industry welcomes UK government’s COVID-19 support for self-employed

ALSO MENTIONED

• Coronamusicians.info

• Musicians' Union Hardship Fund

• Spotify COVID-19 Music Relief

• PRS Emergency Relief Fund

• Help Musicians Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund

• MMF Song Royalties Guide

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• Buy the Dissecting The Digital Dollar book