Lower than a fortnight after a Chappell Roan Grammys speech sparked a dialog about psychological healthcare in music, Common Music Group (UMG) has partnered with the Music Well being Alliance to launch the Music Business Psychological Well being Fund. The main-label group and music nonprofit say the initiative will present “complete, high-quality outpatient psychological well being sources for music business professionals nationwide,” together with those that have left the business. The fund seems to primarily present assist with sources and suggestions, but in addition gives “grants to assist offset prices,” in accordance with a press launch.
The initiative is being marketed as an enlargement upon a earlier partnership between the 2 corporations, the Precedence Healthcare Advocacy Program, which was stated to offer free, confidential healthcare sources to UMG artists.
In her Greatest New Artist Grammys speech, Roan, who has stated she struggled to afford healthcare after being dropped by her label in 2020, urged report labels and the business “profiting thousands and thousands of {dollars} off of artists” to “supply a livable wage and healthcare, particularly to creating artists.” She added, “Report labels have to deal with their artists as helpful workers with a livable wage and medical insurance and safety. Labels, we bought you, however do you bought us?”
Music entrepreneur Jeff Rabhan subsequently printed a contentious column in The Hollywood Reporter, apparently arguing that labels have been neither chargeable for, nor competent sufficient to ship, Roan’s reforms. In addition to letting labels off the hook, Rabhan recommended Roan ought to “put [her] cash the place [her] mouth is.” She did, pledging $25,000 to a fund for rising artists, and several other fellow artists—together with Charli XCX and Noah Kahan—adopted swimsuit. On the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, Ariana Grande additionally pushed for labels to incorporate free remedy periods in younger artists’ contracts.
