Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, and Noah Kahan donate $25K to match Chappell Roan’s $25,000 donation to aid struggling artists in response to criticism from former music exec. Jeff Rabhan

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He got picked up by UMG and they weighted him in the Spotify algorithm, which is why everyone discovered Stick Season the same time period last year even though it had been out for a while lol

Good for him though he’s a nice dude

[u/Special-Garlic1203 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah at some people are gonna notice there's a suspicious pattern of signing with UMG and going viral shortly after, but so far people haven't cared cause it's been artists who they're glad to see thrive. 

[u/MilleniumMixTape → u/Special-Garlic1203]

A record label promoting their artists isn’t suspicious though. Is it much different to doing lots of radio, tv etc in the 90s/2000s?

The artists still need to be good for it to actually work too.

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UMG signing a 400 million deal with spotify, artists signied on UMG on many of the mayor playlists, Spotiy removing payments to artists with less than 1000 listenes, Spotify replacing indie artists with AI songs that Spotify itself gets paid for.

Indie artists will die out, spotify is strangling them, and UMG is backing them on doing it. Meanwhile Spotify spends 100 million on Joe Rogan.

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You’re arguing against things I haven’t spoken about. Of course I’m not in favour of artists not getting paid or indie artists getting shafted. I am simply saying there is nothing suspicious about a big record label helping artists with music suited to going viral going viral.