Common Music Group launches new psychological well being fund

Common Music Group has introduced the launch of a brand new music well being fund in partnership with the Music Well being Alliance – discover out extra beneath.

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Yesterday (February 13), Common Music Group revealed the Music Industry Mental Health Fund, which can present psychological well being companies to present and former music professionals throughout the US, even these not signed with or related to the label.

The partnership builds upon each firms’ earlier four-year healthcare program by means of personalised suggestions for psychological well being counsellors, grants to offset prices and funding useful resource suggestions if essential to make sure the continuation of care by means of further monetary and psychological well being assist.

Apart from the companies supplied by means of the Music Trade Psychological Well being Fund, the MHA additionally offers dental care assets, particular person and household medical health insurance, senior care assist, imaginative and prescient care assets and extra.

UMG and the MHA have prior to now served “almost 1,000 purchasers and saved them greater than $12.5million in healthcare prices” – for more information on the Music Industry Mental Health Fund, visit here.

It’s at present unclear if the fund might be expanded to incorporate professionals the world over.

The fund’s announcement comes shortly after former NME Cowl star Chappell Roan gained her first Grammy at this 12 months’s ceremony on February 3. Whereas amassing the award for Finest New Artist, she referred to as out the music business and “demanded that labels within the business profiting tens of millions of {dollars} off of artists would supply a habitable wage and well being care, particularly creating artists.”

The speech earned a standing ovation from these in attendance and a groundswell of assist on social media. Not all figures within the music business have been supportive of Roan’s name for higher assist for artists although. Jeffrey Rabhan – a longtime music govt and former Chair of NYU’s Clive Davis Institute – responded to her phrases in a visitor column for The Hollywood Reporter, calling her Grammys speech “misguided” and “uninformed”.

The ‘Good Luck, Babe’ singer then hit out at Rabhan herself, posting a screenshot of his article during which he claimed the Missouri pop star was “not a struggling artist” and will “do one thing about” the wealth disparity “relatively than discuss it”.

Since then, Roan has shared extra feedback about what has now became a crowdfunding marketing campaign, and mentioned that she hoped for change for the business relatively than donations from followers and artists – Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX and Noah Kahan have all pledged $25,000 in donations, matching Chappell’s quantity to business non-profit group Backline.

“Sharing my private expertise on the Grammy stage wasn’t meant to be a crowdfunded bandaid however a name to motion to the leaders of the business to step up, assist us make actual change and defend their investments in a sustainable approach,” she mentioned on Instagram Tales.

“Followers, y’all don’t need to donate a rattling penny. That is one among many alternatives for the business powers to indicate up for artists. There’s way more work to be carried out.”

Extra just lately, Ariana Grande weighed in on the dialogue too, and urged that leisure firms embrace psychological well being companies in artist contracts.

“It’s so vital that these report labels, these studios, these TV studios, these large manufacturing firms make it part of the contract if you signal on to do one thing that’s going to vary your life in that approach, on that scale. You want a therapist to be seeing a number of instances every week,” she mentioned.

“When these persons are solid in these life-changing roles, or after they get that report deal, after they get that second, that needs to be non-negotiable within the contract,” Grande continued. “As a result of to be an artist, you’re a weak individual together with your coronary heart in your sleeve.”