He's making a stand and encouraging artists to put value on their work - and not just accept the promise of 'expsoure' and, maybe, millions of streams... which are worth little anyway.
Reasonable imo.
Edit: In fact...
Tweets tell the story.
Twitter/X is now full of 1000s of American no-marks saying things like...
Fair play to Martyn for sticking up for the value of his work.
Apparently GTA VI will have 400+ songs. Probably would lead to exposure among da kidz. Then again, so has this spat.
For folk who don't know, this is easy with a Gmail account (or similar).
Just set up an Albion account with your.name+WHATEVER@gmail.com
(where "WHATEVER" is child/parent name - don't forget the +)
Albion (and other sites) see it as a different address, but emails still get delivered to...
I should just... roll with it? Now you tell me!
So I've wasted all my time this lobbying Competition & Markets Authority, Department for DCM etc this week?
In other news, in the NYT, Ticketmaster deny using dynamic pricing (after Oasis apologised for the use of dynamic pricing).
“Ticketmaster does not set prices, nor do we have or offer algorithmic surge pricing technologies,” the company said in a statement. “Furthermore, Ticketmaster did not...
You would moan if the guy literally in front of you paid £150 - the price you were promised when you joined the six-hour virtual queue.
And then UEFA announced Brighton would play in two more Champions League finals, and loads more tickets were going on sale.
I appreciate language evolves but, my God, this one is hard to take...
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/07/90s-icon-feels-hit-song-so-good-obliterated-career-21549762/