The people you see onstage at the Grammys can make it work. But for a lot of singers and songwriters, streaming has made a full-time music career unsustainable.
Conversations about these disparities have long taken place within the music industry, but last year, they spilled out into the public. In January 2022, Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify to protest Joe Rogan spreading misinformation about coronavirus vaccines on his podcast. Joni Mitchell and other musicians followed suit.
For various complicated reasons — including Spotify’s cut, and the large number of streams it takes to get to that dollar — this scheme leads to less money for musicians, experts say. Things worsened for all creatives, but they grew particularly dire for songwriters, who have long missed out on some potential sources of revenue available to performers, such as touring and merchandise. Then there’s the lag time between doing the work and getting paid for it.
The Boston-born Harrell grew interested in music at a young age, given that her parents were pastors and singers, her father working as a songwriter to boot. She enrolled in an apprenticeship program at the Berklee College of Music at 15 years old, sights set on becoming a singer, and soon earned a scholarship to become a full-time student.
“He looks at me and says, ‘Mom, this doesn’t make any sense.’ And I was like, ‘You know what? It doesn’t.’”In 2015, Harrell lost her home. A friend took her son for about nine months while she tried figuring out what to do next. “Do I keep writing?” she remembers wondering. “It made no literal sense — no money — and it made no figurative sense. It was like, ‘This is stupid.’”“The thing that I thought I was going to be able to provide a life for my son absolutely did not do that,” Harrell said.
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