The music industry has a lot of stories it doesn't want you to hear.
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31,384 people have stood with one of them. No account, no legal name, nothing published without human review.
Most recently published
Every one of these was written anonymously and read by a person before it appeared here. 345 stories on the record so far.
“It was presented as an opportunity rather than a job.”
“I was told this is how it works for everyone at my level.”
“The paperwork arrived the day before, with a deadline attached.”
“The numbers on the statement did not match the numbers on the dashboard.”
“I asked for a breakdown three times and stopped asking.”
Nothing appears here until a person has read it. Stories naming an individual or a company go to enhanced review first.
The record
Testimony from artists, producers, songwriters, managers, engineers, executives and touring crew — filed, numbered and kept.
Explore the record →AgainstBlacklisting
“Nobody says you are blacklisted. The calls simply stop, and everyone is very warm about it.”
I managed three acts on a regional circuit. I told a promoter, on email, that he could not keep settling shows in cash and calling it a marketing deduction. I copied nobody. I was polite.
345
Voices and counting
Filed anonymously. Read by a person. Kept.
“Everyone knew which bunk not to walk past after two in the morning.”
AgainstHarassment
AgainstDiscrimination
The booker told me, kindly, that they already had one of me on the bill.
Discrimination
AgainstTouring Conditions
The arrangement was described to me as standard.
Mental health
“The numbers on the statement did not match the numbers on the dashboard.”
“I asked for a breakdown three times and stopped asking.”
AgainstStreaming Math
AgainstSilence
“It was presented as an opportunity rather than a job.”
It was presented as an opportunity rather than a job. The money existed. It was simply always going somewhere else first. Nothing about it was unusual, which is the point.
I was told this is how it works for everyone at my level.
“It was presented as an opportunity rather than a job.”
AgainstDiscrimination
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Countries in the record
Bedroom producers, touring crew, label executives.
The offer came with a condition nobody wrote down.
The movement
Every number here is a query, not a claim. When a contributor asks for their story back, the count goes down.
Your turn
14 categories, each one a record of its own. Pick the one that sounds like your experience and read what other people filed under it.
About six minutes. You choose how much you say and how much of you appears. Nothing is published until it has been read by a person.