Chappell Roan called out the record labels during her acceptance speech at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
The singer took the stage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles to accept her first Grammy after winning as Best New Artist and took the opportunity to make some needed demands to developing artists.
“I told myself, if I ever won a Grammy and I got to stand up here in front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels and the industry profiting millions of dollars off or artists, would offer a livable wage and healthcare, especially to developing artists,” she said to an arena of roaring applause.
She continued, “Because I got signed so young. I got signed as a minor and when I got dropped, I had zero job experience under my belt. And like most people, I had a difficult time finding a job in the pandemic and could not afford health insurance.”
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Chappell Roan noted that “it was so devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system and so dehumanized to not have health [insurance].”
“And if my label would have prioritized artist health, I could have been provided care by a company I was giving everything to,” she added. “So record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you, but do you got us?”
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Watch Chappel Roan’s speech below.
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